Category: good to know

Germany
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | April 1
Cannabis legalisation shows no signs of the harm critics predicted

Psychedelic therapy
psychoactive | Latin American Post | April 1
Mexico’s cartels hamper the consideration of novel treatments

Extension
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | April 2
Cannabis program “ZüriCan” to continue for 2 more years

Interventional psychiatry
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | April 3
Big pharma shows big interest

Neural fingerprint
psychoactive | The Guardian | April 6
Psilocybin leads to cross-talk between brain systems

More
psychoactive | NYT | April 7
How psychedelics affect the brain

End of life distress
psychoactive | CBC News | April 7
Terminally ill Canadian patient had to help himself to psilocybin

Other thoughts
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | April 10
Psychedelics and telepathy

France
psychoactive | The Lancet | April 11
IV racemic ketamine approved for the treatment of adult severe suicidal crisis

Aborting a bad trip
psychoactive | The Microdose | April 13
Five questions for emergency physician Gregory Yates

England
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | April 13
Psychedelic research at Cambridge University

Pills & ills
science | BPS Journal | April 14
Capturing addiction recovery

Ibogaine in the US
psychoactive | Psychedelics Today | April 16
Practitioner statement of responsible development

Hidden biodiversity
science | High Country News | April 17
Mycorhizal fungi networks need more protection

Fallout
eco² | The Conversation | April 17
Faraway wars have worrying ecological consequences – also in Switzerland

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | April 17
Two deaths and two serious incidents in Switzerland within two years.

By decree
psychoactive | NYT | April 19
Restrictions on psychedelic drugs loosened in the US

Neurobiology
science | Aeon | April 20
Facts about the brain you want to know

Reefer Madness
psychoactive | NYT | April 20
The propaganda that keeps on giving

German Survey
psychoactive | Leafie | April 20
Use of prescription drugs down by 83% since medicinal cannabis legalisation

Sports
psychoactive | Reasons to be cheerful | April 23
Can psychedelics help athletes recover from brain injury?

A full brain?
science / The Conversation / April 24
What we remember makes all the difference

Chemical frontiers
psychoactive | Focal Points | April 25
Hidden risks of psychedelic treatment

PTSD
psychoactive | The Guardian | April 30
Active-duty US solders to be treated with MDMA  next year

Psilocybin
psychoactive | MedRXiv | March 1
Mental health outcomes following psilocybin sessions within Oregon’s state-regulated model

Ibogaine
psychoactive | New York Times | March 1
Used against trauma all over the world

Relief
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich  March 2
Psychedelics and pain management

Psychedelic Retreats
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | March 4
A critique of the Industry by an insider

Placeholders
psychoactive | BioSpace | March 5
Psychedelics used in lieu of traditional antidepressants

Psilocybin II
psychoactive | New Scientist | March 6
One dose relieves Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) for months

Head shaping
science | Live Science | March 6
An ancient practice finds an explanation.

Healing
culture | Country & Town House | March 6
British landowners are turning to druids and shamans to heal their land

University of Madison-Wisconsin
psychoactive | UW School of Pharmacy | March 9
A professorship for psychedelic science for the eminent researcher Paul Hutson

To stop smoking
psychoactive | JAMA Network | March 10
Psilocybin patch helps more than one with nicotine

Cannabis
psychoactive| Science Direct | March 10
Illegal market recedes as a result of legalisation

Magic mushrooms
psychoactive | Popular Science | March 10
Newly discovered fungus rewrites origins of psilocybe

Transpersonal
psychoactive | NOEMA | March 17
On psychedelic entities

Comparisons
psychoactive | JAMA Network | March 18
Disappointment leads to low scores for psychedelics in unblinded comparative studies

Native boarding schools
culture | High Country News | March 20
Government plans Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Witches
eco | The Conversation | March 20
Ecofeminist symbols for our times

New drugs
psychoactive | The New York Times | March 21
Poisoning people with paper

MDMA
psychoactive | New York Times | March 24
High cost hampers greater number of positive therapy results in Australia

Restoring the brain
psychoactive | UC Berkeley | March 26
Virtual reality and psychedelics help stroke patients regain motor and cognitive function

Long ignored
science | Live Science | March 29
Endometriosis drives a whole body immune response due to inflammation.

Around the moon
science | New York Times | March 30
Going to the moon without landing

Microdosing
psychoactive | ScienceDirect | February
Small, non-psychedelic quantities of psilocybin may help monitor obesity.

Treatment
psychoactive | The Guardian | 1 February
Ex-British Army Chief promotes the use of MDMA for PTSD treatment

Psychedelic narcissism
psychoactive | The Microdose | 2 February
5 questions for Henrik Jungaberle

A convincing solution
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | 2 February
Swiss cannabis provider sets industrial standards

Ethics
psychoactive | Stat Years | 2 February
Should researchers disclose their own psychedelic use?

Psychedelic Catalysed Innovation
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 5 February
An Interview with astrobiologist Bruce Dammer

Dopamine
psychoactive | National Geographic | 6 February
How to get high on your own supply.

Stepping up
psychoactive | The Harvard Gazette| 9 February
Professional healthcare provided in ritual and recreational psychedecli settings.

Too high
psychoactive | The New York Times.| 9 February
America has a marijuana problem.

Rewiring the Brain
psychoactive | Live Science| 9 February
Scientists gain understanding of how psychedelics treat PTSD.

Psychedelic Therapy
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 10 February
Dosing, ritual and related Issues

Solarpunks
eco | Aeon | 10 February
Joining technology with nature to green the world

Agrovoltaics
eco | pv-magazine | 12 February
Solar installations in Spanish vineyards, looking good.

Don’t do it!
psychoactive | The Conversation | 16 February
Anal drug use is dangerous.

Experiential
psychoactive | The Conversation | 18 February
Can psychedelic therapy improve our mental health?

Psychedelic groupthink
psychoactive | NPR | 19 February
Blurring the line between spirituality and profit.

Vegetation
eco | Reasons to be cheerful | 19 February
Zurich’s rooftops are among the greenest worldwide

Religiously
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 23 February
Getting high with the Bible

The munchies
psychoactive | Nautilus | 23 February
Why we tend to get hungry after using cannabis.

Antarctica
eco | The Conversation | 24 February
Rain is coming to the seventh continent.

Lessons in positivity
culture | The Guardian | 25 February
An Interview with the legendary Stewart Brand

Ancestry
science | Live Science | 27 February
Neanderthal males were hot for human women.

Psychedelics for fun
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 27 February
“Make no mistake: this is the future.”

Inclusion
psychoactive | BBC | 1 January
Should the National Health Service use psilocybin to treat mental health?

Trial results
psychoactive | Science Direct/ 1 January
LSD Microdosing in Major Depressive Disorder

Reality check
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 2 January
The psychedelic honeymoon is over.

Cocaine
psychoactive | CBC | 4 January
How one man’s addiction forced the development of modern-day residency programs

Activism
culture| The Conversation | 5 January
How to tackle injustice in small but effective ways

In need of regulation
psychoactive | PharmExec | 6 January
Ketamine’s antidepressant effects increase off-label psychiatric use

Betterment
psychoactive | Victoria News | 7 January
Canadian startup launches first psilocybin wellness trial

Candy-flipping
psychoactive | DoubleBlind  7 January
About mixing MDMA and LSD

Ibogaine & MeO-DMT
psychoactive | Mother Jones | 9 January
Psychedelics as a last hope, but not without danger

Intervention
psychoactive | Futurism | 9 January
Fentanyl overdoses in sharp decline

Stoned Ape
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 9 January
Terence McKenna’s theory about the origins of consciousness gains traction

Cats
nature | Live Science | 10 January
Did any of the roughly 600 breeds evolve naturally?

Commodification
psychoactive | The Microdose | 12 January
How psychedelics and related medicines are sold

Profanity
science | The Psychologist | 12 January
Does swearing boost physical power?

Bumpy rollout
psychoactive | The New York Times | 13 January
Psilocybin therapy safer than playing golf, expert says, but hard to access

Participatory
culture | reasons to be cheerful | 13 January
In Paris, anyone can help decide how the city spends its money

Ketamine
psychoactive | The Conversation| 14 January
Many young users end up with bladder problems

Thinking like a fungus
nature | The New York Times | 14 January
Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers wins the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

Landholders vs. stockholders
science | Aeon | 15 January
The origin of our political divide

Last rites
psychoactive | The Guardian | 16 January
An interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky

Commercially
psychoactive | Truthdig | 16 January
On the rise of psychedelic marketing

Australia
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 16 January
Progress and pitfalls in the continent’s psychedelic experiment

Conservation
nature | High Country News | 19 January
Alaska and its public lands

Show me more
psychoactive | Ipsos | 20 January
Americans are ready to know more about psychedelic therapy

By the numbers
psychoactive | RAND | 21 January
Psychedelic use and microdosing 2025

Merry Pranksters
psychoactive | Double Blind | 23 January
An Interview with Ken Babbs

Female pioneers
psychoactive | The Microdose | 26 January
5 Questions for historian Zoë Dubuis about early female psychedelic therapists

Producer for the masses
psychoactive | Psychedelic Press | 27 January
Andy Robert interviews acid chemist Richard Kemp

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!