goodnews march 24 – good to know

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Trial Bulletin | 31 January
First treatment at the French University of Nimes

Shamanism
psychoactive | Maps Bulletin | 2 February
A psychedelic journey into the arctic night

Solar
eco | pv-magazine | 2 February
2023 best year worldwide for irradiance

Abused
psychoactive | Mother Jones | 3 February
Sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment industry

Sobriety
psychoactive |  New York Times | 4 February
Changing patterns of substance use

Stigma
science | The Conversation | 5 February
Late diagnosis of alcohol addiction is often deadly

Pets & others
psychoactive |  New York Times | 6 February
Curing animals with cannabis

Changes
eco | Vox | 7 February
More leaves and greener oceans

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Imperial College London | 7 February
Study confirms better sex thanks to shrooms

2000 years ago and earlier
psychoactive | Live Science | 8 February
Romans used a hollowed-out animal bone to store henbane seeds

Europe
culture | Nadja | 9 February
Union reaches agreement to eradicate violence against women

Ancient hunting structure
culture |  Live Science | 13 February
11,000-year-old wall discovered in the Baltic Sea off Germany

Bummers
psychoactive | The Conversation | 14 February
Short circuiting a negative experience is not advisable

LSD
psychoactive | New Scientist | 15 February
Microdosing increases the complexity of your brain signals

Psychedelics
psychoactive | CNN | 19 February
Injured athletes embark on healing journeys

Neuorscience
culture | Imperial College | 21 February
New psychedelic treatments for brain disorders

Determinism
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 23 February
Free will and psychedelics considered by Andrew Weise

Dolphins
psychoactive | the Chrnicle | 27 February
Margret Mead & Gregory Bateson tripped wth cetaceans

january 2024 – good to know

Meaningful
psychoactive | Vox | 1 December
Why psychedelics change people’s lives

San Pedro
psychoactive |  | Mindbetter | 3 December
What it is and where it’s found

Lonely
science | Futurism | 4 December
Our galaxy seems to be surrounded by a large void

Attractive
science |  Inverse | 6 December
Magnet with only one pole baffles physicists

Respect
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 8 December
The role of Indigenous communities in psychedelics, by Rick Doblin

The biggest party of all times?
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 8 December
The era of the Eleusinian Mysteries

Hope for many
psychoactive | Double Blind | 12 December
LSD and psilocybin as a treatment for chronic pain

Transcendence
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 14 December
The experience and meaning of ego death

Illness
psychoactive |  APS | 14 December
Stigmatisation of substance users hampers their rehabilitation

Fungi
nature | Psydkick | 16 December
How to dry and store mushrooms of any kind

Rewilding
nature | High Country News | 19 December
How Colorado got its wolves back

Possession and personal use
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 22 December
Additional presidential pardons for marijuana users

Eating disorders
psychoactive | PsyPost | 26 December
Promising studies confirm the value of psilocybin

Rebranding
psychoactive | High Times | 29 December
From stoners to self-medicating herbalists

december 2023 – go to know

Dependency
psychoactive | Lucid News | 1 November
Kentucky’s plans for ibogaine

Under water
eco |  Hakai Magazine | 1 November
Capturing carbon with seaweed

Damaging
psychoactive | Double Blind | 2 November
War on drugs harms the environment

Traditional
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 3 November
Women and peyote in the Indigenous world

Samadhi
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 3 November
A potent mix of DMT and MAOIs

Going south
nature | Live Science | 5 November
Auroras and other light phenomena

Ketamine
psychoactive | Double Blind | 7 November
Falling into a K-hole

Climate havens
eco | National Geographic | 13 November
What makes these cities different from others

Chronic disease
psychoactive | Psychological Science | 13 November
Redefining addiction to ease the stigma

The Chalice
psychoactive | Lucid News | 18 November
Beyond the psychedelic renaissance in Berkeley

Shrooms
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 19 November
A short and comprehensive guide

culture | Science Daily | 20 November
Prehistorically better suited than men

Convince me!
culture | RT | 27 November
The US word of the year

Little helpers
science |  High Times | 27 November
Farmer in trouble for using ducks to fertilize his field

Misnomer
culture | IFL Science | 28 November
How dark were the dark ages?

november 2023 – good to know

Opening
psychoactive | Aeon | 2 October
A mind’s eye for those who never had one

Prehistoric
culture |  Live Science | 5 October
Oldest American footprints (so far) date 25’000 years back

Religion
psychoactive | Double Blind | 5 October
Veteran creates psilocybin cult

Doubtful
psychoactive | New Scientist | 7 October
Psychedelic health claims may promote risky use

Mutual therapy
life | Aeon | 13 October
Training people to support each other through difficult times

Acceleration
psychoactive | Inverse | 15 October
Psychedelics change how fast the brain learns

Rave culture
psychoactive | The Microdose | 16 October
Five questions for drugs journalist Michelle Lhooq

Doubt and pain
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 17 October
Two thirds of psilocybin users feel shame or guilt while tripping

R.I.P.
psychoactive | psychedelics.com | 17 October
In Dr. Roland Griffith, we lost another great psychedelic pioneer

Shrooms
psychoactive | New York Times | 19 October
A wild and wonderful world

Reform
psychoactive | Lucid News | 21 October
A new drug policy for 450 million Europeans

Psilocybin
psychoactive | New York Times | 23 October
A new era of psychedelics in Oregon

Substantial
psychoactive | The Conversation | 23 October
Brain flexibility increased by various psychedelic means

Leaky
science | New Atlas | 23 October
The earth’s core seems permeable

Space
science | Aeon/Psyche | 24 October
The last ethical frontier

Harvard
psychoactive | Center for the Studies of World Religions | 25 October
Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture announced

Psilocybin II
psychoactive | The Washington Post  26 October
What magic mushrooms do to your brain

Psychedelics
psychoactive | NBC News | 29 October
Effects of psychedelics can last for days

october 2023 – good to know

River Notes
nature | Rolling Stone | 3 September
Twilight of the American West, by Wade Davis

Artemisia
nature | Interesting Engineering | 5 September
Sweet Annie yields her healing secrets

Decriminalization
psychoactive |  Los Angeles Times | 7 September
California moves to legitimize the ingestion of psilocybin and other natural psychedelics

Non-hallucinogenic psychedelics
psychoactive | The Microdose | 11 September
Five questions for researcher David Olson

Canada
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 12 September
A case of sexual assault unsettles the psychedelic community

Modern minds
psychoactive | Double Blind | 12 September
The neglected history of 19th century drug use

Intake and uptake
psychoactive | Psypost | 13 September
Psychedelic use linked to decrease in alcohol and cocaine use but increase in tobacco and cannabis users

One more step
psychoactive | MAPS | 14 September
MDMA-assisted therapy for moderate to severe PTSD: a randomized, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial

Therapy
psychoactive | MSN | 16 September
Thousands sign up after Oregon legalizes mushrooms

R.I.P. Robbie Robertson
culture | Rolling Stone | 17 September
Martin Scorsese’s moving goodbye to his friend

Habitat
science | Mother Jones | 17 September
Researchers struggle to deliver safe environments for animals

All good
psychoactive | Double Blind | 18 September
From coca to kava with Andrew Weill

Substance use
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 19 September
Psychedelics as the unsung heroes of the pandemic

And why not?
nature | New York Times | 20 September
Animals do talk – science finally gets it!

Authenticity
life | Psyche | 22 September
What Nietzsche meant when he spoke of the self

Syrian rue
psychoactive | Double Blind | 24 September
The dream-inducing herbs of ancient Iran

Spirituality
psychoactive | NPR | 24 September
About chaplains on psychedelics

Seduction
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 26 September
Are you a Flow Boy/Girl?

Correlation
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 26 September
The effect of psilocybin on mood and inflammation

september 2023 – good to know

Concierge
psychoactive | The Guardian | 1 August
How to find the best and safest psychedelic experiences

When nature is legal
psychoactive | On Drugs | 3 August
Poorly worded laws leave many loopholes

Psilocybin
psychoactive |  Springer Link | 3 August
Potential for the treatment of episodic migraine

Conservation
nature | Mother Jones | 4 August
Brazil reports a big decline in the deforestation of the rain forest

Intergenerational trauma
psychoactive | The Microdose | 7 August
5 Questions for Indigenous advocate Susan Beaulieu

Challenge
eco | Smithsonian Magazine | 8 August
Swiss seniors are suing the Swiss state over climate change and health issues

Suck it up!
eco | MIT Technology Review | 11 August
The US is investing 1.2 billion in removing CO2 from the air

50 years of hip-hop
culture | Jewish Telegraph Agency | 11 August
The ten most influential Jewish rapperstry

Effective
eco | The New York Review of Books | 13 August
Les soulèvements de la terre – ecology with an impact

Fungal future
nature | Proto Life | 17 August
African curated Architectural Biennale shows future symbiosis man-nature

Plant parenthood
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 18 August
Generational connection through psychedelics

Two surveys about LSD
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 22 August
Help for compulsive obsessive disorder and better leadership through the right chemistry

Rural Black addiction
psychoactive | Time | 23 August
What it looks like and who the victims are

Ageing and death
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 24 August
Psychedelics are bound to change the later years of our lives

A scientist’s view II
psychoactive | Substack | 24 August
The radical ideas of psychedelic research 2.0, by Mona Sobhani

Hallucinogenic cult
psychoactive | Aeon | 25 August
A closer look at the Druids

Cannabis
psychoactive | New York Times | 28 August
The Thai weed business is set to grow fast

Shrooming
psychoactive | Live Science | 28 August
Psilocybin use hits record high in adults

august 2023 – good to know

No toad needed
psychoactive | PubMed | July
Rapid antidepressant effect of 5-MeO-DMT

Peyote
psychoactive | The Microdose | 1 July
Indigenous use: 5 questions for Attorney Steven C. Moore

Legal medicine
psychoactive |  BBC | 1 July
Australia is the first country to legalize psychedelics for certain health conditions

Khat
psychoactive | Double Blind | 4 July
The forgotten history of cathinone

Snow to go
psychoactive | Reuters | 5 July
Cocaine in the West Wing of the White House

A reset for utilities
eco | pv-magazine | 6 July
Small-scale PV systems drive roof top installations

Germany
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 6 July
Marijuana bill drafted

Financially
psychoactive | Briarpatch Magazine | 6 July
The global worth of the psychedelic industry

Decriminalization
psychoactive | The Washington Post | 7 July
Unbridled drug use is not the solution when it comes to hard drugs

Treating addiction
culture | Reasons to be cheerful | 10 July
Rural courts are prescribing medication for addiction

A positive end
psychoactive | Proto Life | 13 July
Depleted by her health issues, the author takes psilocybin

MDMA
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 13 July
From therapy to empathy and back

Healing with music
culture | The Conversation | 13 July
Festivals deliver blueprints for a possible future

Wild coalition
psychoactive | High Times | 18 July
A bi-partisan psychedelic push in US-congress

A dubious past
culture | Rolling Stone | 23 July
The story behind the Barbie doll

Down under
psychoactive | The Microdose | 24 July
Five questions for psychedelics researcher Paul Liknaitzky

Outsmarted
psychoactive | The Conversation | 25 July
Prodrugs and their ways of circumventing the law

A scientist’s view
psychoactive | Substack | 27 July
The brave new world of psychedelic research by Mona Sobhani

july 2023 – good to know

Shrooms
psychoactive | Healio | 1 June
Psilocybin therapy improves self-beliefs, increases neural entropy.

Bern, Switzerland
psychoactive | Swiss Info | 2 June
Swiss capital wants to launch pilot project for controlled cocaine sales.

Psychedelic therapy
psychoactive |  Inverse | 4 June
Rewiring the Brain with LSD and magic mushrooms

Scientifically
psychoactive |  nature neuroscience | 5 June
Psychedelics promote plasticity by binding two essential brain proteins

Mycorrhizal mycelium
science | Current Biology | 5 June
Mushrooms might save the planet

Merlin Sheldrake
culture | New York Times | 8 June
The man who turned the world on to the genius of fungi

Neuroscience
science | Big Think | 9 June
Is there such a thing as a self?

Bègles
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | 9 June
French town first to want to introduce legalized cannabis

UFOs
science | Futurism | 11 June
One in five professors claims to have seen them

Traditionally
culture | The Guardian | 16 June
How Indigenous wisdom helped save missing Amazonian children

More research needed
psychoactive | Inverse | 18 June
MDMA changes the brain in unknown ways

Landmark study
psychoactive | Double Blind | 20 June
How Psilocybin helps treat alcohol addiction

Double platinum
psychoactive | Inverse | 22 June
Aaron Rogers speaks about Ayahuasca at Psychedelic Science in Denver

Another Stonehenge 
culture | Live Science | 24 June
4,500-year-old sanctuary discovered in the Netherlands

Collapse
Neuroplasticity
nature | Live Science | 26 June
Swiss mountain loses 60 feet (19 m) in height

History
psychoactive | The Guardian | 27 June
What you (and I) didn’t know about MDMA and the CIA

june 2023 – good to know

Conscious experience
science | Live Science | 1 May
Surges of activity in the human brain at the moment of death

Facilitated access
psychoactive | Compass Pathways | 2 May
American Medical Association to issue first new code for psychedelic therapies

Faith
culture |  Live Science | 3 May
Buddhists in Egypt during Roman times

Inequality
psychoactive |  Rolling Stone | 6 May
Psychedelics as a cure for capitalism

Mushrooms
culture | Inverse | 8 May
A new area of sustainable design

The Hvarts of Croatia
culture | Vice | 8 May
Sunken neolithic road discovered off the Adriatic coast, seen here.

Therapeutic
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 12 May
First psilocybin center to open in Oregon

Boon
psychoactive | MJ Biz Daily | 12 May
Canadian government made 1,5 billion dollars in marijuana tax in 2021/22

Greening cities
eco | Bloomberg | 16 May
Brussels is taming the automobile

Cannabis
psychoactive | Forbes | 22 May
Switzerland to expand testing program to more cities

Rewilding
eco | The Guardian | 22 May
Toronto’s Don River is roaring back to life

Cannabis II
psychoactive Filter | 24 May
Towards racial justice

Easy to get
psychoactive | Vice | 24 May
Procuring LSD in Japan

Psychedelics
psychoactive | Psychedelic Blog | 26 May
Activating consciousness

5-MeO-DMT
Neuroplasticity
psychoactive | Psy-Post | 27 May
Study show long-lasting effects in mice.

All we need is a miracle…
culture | The Guardian | 28 May
People flock to Missouri monastery to see the intact body of a dead nun.

may 2023 – good to know

Renaissance
psychoactive | Lucid News | 31 March
EU recognizes need for policy reform on psychedelic-assisted therapies

Of mice and men
science | Inverse | 5 April
A promising new path to treating addiction

Menorca, Spain
psychoactive | National Geographic | 6 April
European shamans used substances 3’000 years ago

Top player
psychoactive | Kingdom of Morocco | 6 April
UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs confirms Morocco’s pioneering role

Public support
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 7 April
Against the demonization of ayahuasca in Spain

Budding prospects
psychoactive | pv-magazine | 8 April
About solar energy and cannabis cultivation

Trip killers
psychoactive | Double Blind | 11 April
Who and what to avoid when journeying

Big time
eco | CNBC | 12 April
The world generated more solar energy than ever last year

Genetics
science | Gizmodo | 12 April
Better drugs, better health

Magic Mushroom Church
psychoactive | boingboing | 13 April
A new chapel is opening in San Francisco

Philosophy
culture | The Psychedelic Blog | 14 April
On discovering Alan Watt

Sampling
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 15 April
Nine different types of psychedelic mushrooms

Forgotten psychonauts
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 17 April
Drug use in the nineteenth century

Old & tripping
psychoactive | Lucid News | 17 April
Intake of psychedelics shows no adverse effects – therapeutically…

A last interview with Raphael Mechoulam
psychoactive | Tablet | 18 April
“Essentially in every disease that has been investigated, the endogenous cannabinoid system is involved.”

Cannabis
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 20 April
Edibles go mainstream

Postgraduate studies
psychoactive | The Guardian | 21 April
Exeter Uni cements the importance of psychedelics in the UK

LSD revolutionaries
psychoactive | Lucid News | 23 April
Former LSD manufacturers met in San Francisco for bicycle day

Faster, please!
psychoactive | The Guardian | 29 April
Joe Biden commutes sentences of thirty-one non-violent drug offenders

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