goodnews september 2026 – good to know

Conservation
psychoactive | The Microdose | August 3
Pilfering toads in the Sonoran desert

Tourism
psychoactive | The Conversation | August 3
Visiting Indigenous populations on their terms

5-MeO-DMT
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | August 4
How smoking the toad became a thing

Religion
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | August 5
Threatening visions drive some ayahuasca users straight into the arms of Jesus.

Save the climate?
science | British Psychological Society | August 6
Wealthy people suffer from cognitive dissonance regarding their involvement.

PTSD
psychoactive | Psypost | August 7
Psilocybin sessions mostly take place in silence.

A new consortium
psychoactive | The Gobe and Mail | August 11
Ottawa invests CAD 24 million for cannabis brain research

Blind & blinder
psychoactive | Yale Journal on Regulation| August 11
Super placebo psychedelics

Ultra precise measurements
science | The Brighter Side | August 13
ETH Zurich researchers discover a possible fifth force of nature.

Nine VIQs around psychedelics
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | August 14
Andrew M. Weisse addresses the issues that matter

Bronze age astronomy
science | Live Science | August 16
A hat worn by a sun cult’s leader speaks of his ability to predict eclipses

Ancestral intelligence
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | August 17
Guests with a message at the World Ayahuasca Forum in Girona

Om
psychoactive | The Spore Report | August 17
Why do people on psychedelics so often see Hindu deities

Turning points
science | Psypost | August 18
The structural organization of the brain changes over one’s life.

Gernany
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | August 19
Feud over medical cannabis insurance descends into chaos.

Rite of passage
psychoactive | PsyPost | August 22
Preparations for and consequences of raves

RIP Dolly Parton
culture | The Conversation | August 26
“The last American everybody liked.” (Jelly Roll)

Manosphere
culture | Futurism | August 27
Tate brothers turn out to be frauds

Searching for wisdom
nature | High Country News | August 28
Talking to animals

Efficiency vs self-sufficiency
culture | Aeon | August 31
Architects around the world need to wake up.

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