Category: good to know

Mushroom man
science | Reasons to be cheerful | 1 October
The power of fungi with Paul Stamets

Amending the law
psychoactive | TRIS European Commission | 2 October
Germany has just notified the EU of a draft law to tighten its Medical Cannabis Act

Just add mushrooms
psychoactive | Reasons to be cheerful | 3 October
Psilocybin used to treat an array of conditions from OCD or addiction to burnout

Safer tripping
psychoactive | Harm Reduction Journal | 3 October
Harm reduction practises for users of psychedelic drugs: a scoping review

The Great Man
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 6 October
A theory of all and – almost – everything

From trips to medicine
psychoactive | The Conversation | 7 October
How psychedelics could revolutionise inflammatory medicine

Ibogaine
psychoactive | Westword | 7 October
A new lease on life for many

The state of psychedelics
psychoactive | Healthcare Brew | 7 October
The healthcare business evaluates psychoactive substances in therapy

Cheerio!
psychoactive | Live Science | 8 October
The Wari used beer mixed with psychedelics to help build an empire in Peru at leasts 1200 years ago

Psilocybin
psychoactive | ZME Science | 8 October
Magic mushroom–assisted therapy may offer long-lasting relief for major depression

Energy
eco | Truth Dig| 9 October
The world keeps betting on wind and solar

You never know it all
culture | Aeon | 13 October
Nets have mesh, the internet has holes

Psychiatry
psychoactive | Nature | 14 October
The promise of psychedelic medicine

Psilocybin
psychoactive | The New York Times | 18 October
How the magic got into the shrooms

Microdosing psilocybin
psychoactive | CBS Canada | 20 October
Clinical trying for patients with anxiety underway in Kingston, Ontario

Mushrooms and Mountains
psychoactive | The Microdose | 20 October
Psilocybin traditions in Mexico

Fantasy
culture | The Conversation | 21 October
How Ursula LeGuin drew the maps for the worlds of her books

R.I.P.
psychoactive| Double Blind | 22 October
Farewell Dr. Nolan Williams, pioneer of psychedelic medicine

Antidepressant
psychoactive | The Conversation | 22 October
Different types with different side effects – new study

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Smithsonian Magazine | 28 October
Two species of magic mushrooms evolved into psychedelic compound

Smuggling
psychoactive | The New York Times | 1 September
Californian cannabis is way too popular in Britain

Erosion
nature | Truth Dig | 2 September
Can the Swiss Alps be saved?

Bioluminescence
nature | earth.com | 2 September
Glowing plants could light our streets

Cannabis
psychoactive | Prohibition Partners | 3 September
Inside Switzerland’s legalisation plans

LSD
psychoactive | New Scientist | 4 September
Relief from a single dose

UNESCO World Heritage milestone
psychoactive | Double Blind | 5 September
Wixàrika (Huicholes) sacred lands are granted official protection

Deadly
psychoactive | The Conversation | 5 September
The animal tranquiliser in opioids

Lost & found
psychoactive | The New York Times| 6 September
Hikers too high on psilocybin had to be rescued in the Catskill Mountains

Vine of the soul
psychoactive | Ceremonia | 8 September
Ayahuasca in Colorado – an appraisal

Head injuries
psychoactive | Wired | 8 September
Former NFL All-Pros Are Turning to Psychedelics

Beijing’s Marshall Plan
eco | Bloomberg | 9 September
China is bringing jobs, growth and cheap green energy to the developing world

Rewilding
eco | BBC | 10 September
Shrinking farmland is freeing land for nature in an international trend

Real cocaine
psychoactive | The Guardian | 10 September
A radical new plan to contain overdoses takes hold in Vancouver

Psilocybe ingeli
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 10 September
The potent, fast growing, newly discovered mushroom from KwaZulu-Natal

Monopolist
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | 10 September
Governmental plans a single cannabis retailer

Ketamine
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 12 September
Everything you always wanted to know

Heritage
culture| Psyche | 12 September
How I learned the language of my ancestors

100th birthday celebration
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 12 September
The living legacy of Sasha Shulgin

Petrodollars
eco | The New York Times | 14 September
They took everything – an Indigenous lamento

Eleusis
psychoactive | The Microdose | 15 September
5 questions for Sharday Mosurinjohn and Richard Ascough about psychedelics in ancient Greece

DMT & Harmine
psychoactive | MIT Direct | 15 September
Meditation, Psychedelics, and Brain Connectivity

Psychedelic art
psychoactive | Mutual Art Pulse | 16 September
The legendary life of Charles Wigans

Gradually
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 19 September
UK Royal College of Psychiatrists: enthusiasm mustn’t outpace evidence

Bias
psychoactive | Asterisk Magazine | 22 September
Tripping alone

Real memories?
psychoactive | The New York Times | 24 September
Heiress relives sexual trauma during MDMA therapy and writes a bestselling memoir about it

Museo Frida Kahlo
culture | The New York Times | 27 September
Family home of the famous artist opens to the public in Mexico City

Telluride
psychoactive | McKenna Academy | 30 September
The annual mushroom festival – by Dennis McKenna

Hydrogen
eco |  pv-magazine | 1 August
First containerised shipment from China to arrive in Europe in September

Neuroplasticity
psychoactive |  UC Davis | 4 August
Psychedelics and non-hallucinogenic analogs partially work through the same receptor

Long ago
psychoactive | Gizmodo | 2 August
Bronze Age humans got high on betel nuts

Kayaking through tribal land
eco |  The Washington Post | 8 August
How the Klameth River was brought back to life

A famous family’s feud
psychoactive | Psychedelic Press| 8 August
The forgotten LSD trip that divided the Huxley family

Ibogaine
psychoactive |  The New York Times | 11 August
How the ex-governor of Texas and present energy secretary changed his mind

Indigenous rights
culture | Amazon Conservation Team | 11 August
Amazonian women march for territory and life

Khipus
culture | The Conversation | 14 August
Ancient Incans of all classes used coded strings of hair for accounting

Conservation
eco | The Guardian | 15 August
Fungi are the secret ingredient for restoring the world’s forests

Informed
psychoactive |  The New York Times | 16 August
Times readers ask questions about psychedelics

Death without the sting
psychoactive | Albuquerque Journal | 16 August
Medical studies with psilocybin at University of New Mexico

Good for the head
psychoactive | Marihuana Moment | 18 August
Psilocybin furthers recovery from traumatic brain injury

Postpaartum depression
psychoactive | an Franscico Chronicle | 18 August
Could a taboo treatment help struggling new moms?

Australia
psychoactive | ABC News | 19 August
First psychedelic therapy trial for terminally ill patients shows positive results

New York State
eco | pv-magazine | 22 August
The world’s first 100% hydrogen-fueled linear generator is activiated

Bufotenin
psychoactive | Business Insider | 22 August
Longevity nerd Bryan Johnson goes psychedelic

Arithmetically
culture | Mutual Art Magazine | 23 August
Gothic Architecture: sacred numbers and space as the extension of spirit

Getting older
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 28 August
Study shows CBD improves cognitive decline associated with aging

MDMA
psychoactive | The Guardian | 28 August
How Antonio Garcias took over Lykos Pharmaceuticals

Set
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 29 August
You’ve got personality!

Storytelling
psychoactive | The Guardian | 1 May
Indigenous people tell tourists what they think they want to hear about master plants.

Trips defy words
psychoactive |  Popular Mechanics | 2 May
That’s how they unlock higher consciousness, scientists say

Grief
science | The Walrus | 2 May
There’s a pill for it but it is a good idea?

Ritually
eco | Live Science | 5 May
Room full of kuripe (snuff) pipes  discovered at pre-Inca site in Peru

No fun
culture | The Conversation | 6 May
Microplastics in glitter disrupt how marine life builds its shells and reefs.

Fear no more
psychoactive | New Atlas | 6 May
Psychedelics block the anxiety created by the immune system

Third round in Lykos trial critique
psychoactive | Chemical Poetics | 7 May
Neşe Devenot responds to the allegations made in the New York Times against Psymposia

Capitalism
culture | The Guardian | 6 May
How it could be reformed, and why the time is now

Research
psychoactive | Politico | 7 May
Texas is on its way to becoming a psychedelic research hub

Analogues
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 12 May
An LSD equivalent to treat schizophrenia

Tegelwippen
eco | reasons to be cheerful | 13 May
Anyone can rip up a piece of the sidewalk and plant flowers here

Navy veterans
eco | Marijuana Moment | 13 May
Access to psychedelic treatment demanded

Joining the future
psychoactive | pv-magazine | 15 May
Bali joins rooftop solar acceleration program

Radical Adventure
psychoactive | Maps Bulletin | 16 May
An inquiry into psychedelic psychotherapy by Andrew Feldmár (excerpt)

Future or fantasy?
psychoactive | Double Blind | 16 May
German billionaire Christian Angermayer has big dreams for psychedelics

Exotic?
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 16 May
8 psychedelics you may not yet have heard of

Portugal
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 17 May
Health-related professions unite on psychedelics

Animal speech
nature | Gizmodo | 17 May
Ai furthers talking to other species, but should we?

Commodification
psychoactive | The Conversation | 19 May
The rise of psychedelic capitalism

Shikishima
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 21 May
Psychedelics in Japan. Dr.Hiroyuki Uchida on studies, stigma, and the road ahead

Vital
psychoactive | Double Blind | 26 May
Brain activity & movement in barely conscious woman after a dose of psilocybin

IFS
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 29 May
An introduction to Internal Family Systems as a path to psychedelic integration

Psychedelics
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 30 May
How the Fab Four rewire your capacity for joy

Before Modern Art
culture |  mututal art | 1 April
Ghost drawings & blot paintings

Loquaciousness
culture |  British Psychological Society | 2 April
Do women really talk more than men?

Weedcare
psychoactive | SwissInfo | 2 April
Basel cannabis study reports improvements in smokers’ mental health

Antartica
nature | Atlas obscura | 2 April
Most detailed map of the ice-free continent to date

Anti-feminism
culture | The Conversation | 3 April
How to talk with your sons about the manosphere

Plant medicine
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 4 April
A Rasta village reclaimed psychedelics on its own terms

Functional
science | The Globe & Mail | 5 April
Mushrooms as a secret weapen for well-being

On the dance floor
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 7 April
Raving is having a renaissance in mental health

Religiously
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 8 April
A new wave of legal psychedelic churches

Clean power
eco | The Guardian | 6 April
Last year, forty percent of electricity worldwide came from renewable sources

New Mexico
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 9 April
First legislature-driven psilocybin access act passed in the US

Dreaming
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 9 April
A path to psychedelics in your sleep

Good fire
nature | Reasons to be cheerful | 10 April
Bringing Indigenous blazes back to the land

Cannabis
psychoactive |The New York Times | 14 April
Older users seeking help diagnosed with higher risk of dementia

Taking the drug out of the trip
psychoactive | The Microdose | 14 April
5 Questions for Stanford anesthesiologist and neuroscientist Boris Heifets

Appropriation
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 16 April
Indigenous nations rewrite the history of psychedelics

Psychedelic therapy
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 17 April
Inside Denver’s first licensed psilocybin center

Ketamine
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 18 April
Miracle treatment or the next drug crisis?

No thanks
psychoactive |The Psychedelic Blog | 18 April
10 things psychedelics will ruin for you

Other psychedelic news
psychoactive | The Microdose | 18 April
A possible non-hallucinogenic LSD-analog, and ibogaine on the rise

Assumptions
psychoactive | Psyche | 19 April
Psychedelics as philosophical tools

Best ever
psychoactive | Newsbreak | 21 April
The mass-manufacturing of Owsley’s LSD

Oestrogen
science | The New York Times | 22 April
Sex hormones are brain hormones

Changa
psychoactive | Double Blind | 22 April
What to know about the smokable DMT

Pain relief
psychoactive | The Guardian | 23 April
Relieving cluster headaches with psilocybin

Stress
psychoactive | Nature | 23 April
Psychedelic control of neuroimmune interactions governing fear

Left hand star – right hand star
psychoactive he New York Times | 28 April
Are tech millionaires taking over psychedelics?

Networking
nature |  The New York Times | 1 March
Fungi are helping to maintain the earth’s climate

Psymposia
psychoactive |  Chemical Poetics | 2 March
Neşe Devenot’s response to the New York Times article (referenced here last month)

Tripping
psychoactive | Double Blind | 3 March
The benefits of experiencing guilt & shame

Best Performance
psychoactive | The Conversation | 4 March
50 years ago, Jack Nicholson starred in Miloš Forman’s masterpiece One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Mainstream
psychoactive | Double Blind | 6 March
Ophrah Winfrey makes a case for psychedelicsr

Ayahuasca
psychoactive | Aeon | 6 March
A rite and a business for this Amazonian female shaman

Effective
science | Daily Galaxy | 6 March
The ozone hole over Antartica is shrinking and will vanish completely

Comeback for Rick Doblin
psychoactive | Double Blind | 7 March
Inside the billionaire’s takeover of Lykos

ESP
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 7 March
Telepathy, psychedelics and shared consciousness

MDMA
psychoactive | BBC | 8 March
Party drug may have saved survivors of Nova attack from trauma

Psychedelic Buddhism
psychoactive | The Microdose | 10 March
Five questions for Zen Buddhist priest Kokyo Henkel

Psychedelic Flower
psychoactive | UC Berkeley News | 11 March
Investigating the blue lotus flower of ancient Egypt

War on drugs
psychoactive | The New York Times | 11 March
Filipino ex-presdent Rodrigo Dutertes arrested for crimes against humanity

Swiss Pot Pilot
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 13 March
Government reports the program is running smoothly

Quality
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 14 March
Psychedelic have a positive influence on meditation practice

Kratom
psychoactive | Aeon | 17 March
Does Mytragyna speciosa curb opioid addiction?

Mainstream II
psychoactive | Psychedelic Bulletin | 17 March
De-weirding psychedelics at SXSW

“Know-cebo”
psychoactive | The Microdose | 24 March
5 Questions about the nocebo effect for data analyst Balázs Szigeti

Ibogaine
psychoactive | CBC | 27 March
The last trip?

Insiders
psychoactive |  The New Statesman| 1 February
The so-called psychedelic elite

Interventions
psychoactive |  The Lancet| 1 February
Psychedelics for health

Addiction
psychoactive | The Conversation| 3 February
Illicit drugs as a global threat

Psymposia
psychoactive | The New York Times | 5 February
The cog in Lykos’ wheels

Portugal
psychoactive | Truth Dig | 6 February
A different approach to the war on drugs

Marijuana
psychoactive | The New York Times | 6 February
On Cannabis Use Disorder

History
culture | Aeon | 7 February
For the Aztecs, there was no single truth about the past

High-end spirituality
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 8 February
On the nexus of wealth, hedonism and psychedelic/New Age spirituality

LSD
psychoactive | Psychiatric Times | 10 February
MindMed’s phase 3 trials for Generalized Anxiety Disorder underway

Opioids
psychoactive | The Globe and Mail | 11 February
Harsher punishments of Fentanyl offenders leads to more misery

UK
psychoactive |  Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology | 12 February
Psychedelic-assisted therapy for mental health: policy considerations

Israel & Palestine
culture | The Conversation | 14 February
What the Bible says about the promised land

Addiction II
psychoactive | The Conversation | 14 February
Are antidpressants really as hard to kick as heroin?

Religion
psychoactive | Double Blind | 16 February
The first Black-owned psychedelic church has opened its doors in Oakland

Dying
psychoactive | Popular Mechanics | 18 February
DMT controls our consciousness at the moment of death

Psychedelics
culture | DoubleBlind | 23 February
A new Jewish counterculture

Longevity
science | The New York Times | 25 February
Why women live longer than men

Fashionable
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 26 February
Is ketamine the new cocaine?

Psycedelic-assisted therapy
psychoactive | Science Direct | February
Enhancing spirituality and mystical experiences in patients with life-threatening illnesses: A systematic review

What a trip!
psychoactive |  Psychiatry Online | 1 January
January issue dedicated to psychedelics in therapy

Cannabis
psychoactive |  Marijuana Moment| 1 January
New York celebrates one billion dollars in legal sales

Clutter
culture | Aeon | 2 January
How more is more in Japan

Ayahuasca and SSRi’s
psychoactive | The Microdose | 6 January
Five Questions for UCLA psychiatry professor Charles Grob

MKULTRA
psychoactive | National Security Archives | 8 January
New cache of documents on LSD as a secret weapon available

Psychedelics
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 9 January
Opportunities, challenges and dilemmas in substance mainstreaming

Not so fast
science |  Hakai Magazine | 5 December
Conjuring the Lost Land Beneath the North Sea

Fearless
culture | Futurism | 14 January
TikTok migrants surrender their data to China

Ayahuasca II
psychoactive | Double Blind | 14 January
The art of the Peruvian artist Pablo Amaringo

PsychedeliCare
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 14 January
First European citizen’s initiative for psychedelic-assisted therapies

Bufo
psychoactive |  The Psychedelic Blog | 17 January
Ready for the – endangered – toad?

Ayahuasca III
psychoactive | The Guardian | 17 January
DMT to be used in trial on UK volunteers to counter alcohol misuse.

Religion
psychoactive | CBS News | 17 January
Psychedelics are common in sacred Jewish texts.

Setting
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 17 January
Psychedelic treatment in Switzerland – hospital bed or more private?

Healing addiction 
psychoactive | ew York Times | 18 January
Robert Kennedy Jr. backs recovery farms such as this.

A complex relationship
psychoactive | LSE Religion and Global Society | 20 January
Psychedelics and religion

David Lynch
culture | Mutual Art | 24 January
An obituary

All-powerful pot
psychoactive | New York Times | 25 January
Producing strong and cheap marijuana

Coca
psychoactive | Truth Dig | 29 January
Leaves to be scheduled for reclassification by the WHO