Category: good to know

Cannabis chic
psychoactive | The New York Times | 1 October
Like selling vitamins at an Apple Store

Shifting minds
psychoactive | Double Blind | 1 October
Spiritual transformations tied to lasting benefits of psychedelics, new study says

Efficiency
psychoactive | The Conversation | 2 October
New study suggests psilocybin provides long-term relief from depression

Original
psychoactive | The Guardian | 3 October
Climata activism, one trip at a time

DMT
psychoactive | Double Blind | 8 October
A New Era for Psychedelics in Mental Health Treatment

The banality of evil
psychoactive | The Conversation | 10 October
They are like us

Comedy
psychoactive |  KJZZ | 10 October
Shane Mauss connects stand-up, science and psychedelics

Palliative care
psychoactive | The Austin Chronicle | 11 October
Better dying with psychedelics

Faith
psychoactive | Psychology Today | 14 October
Can psychedelics make you believe in God?

New Zealand
psychoactive | The New Zealand Herald | 16 October
Lifting the lid on mushrooms, LSD and the local psychedelic culture

Intelligence
nature | Goodnews Network | 18 October
Fungi have memories, learn shapes, can make decisions and solve problems

Pink cocaine
psychoactive | The New York Times | 21 October
Ketamine, ecstasy and meth – a dangerous mix

Same but different
science | Entheogenesis | 24 October
Psilocybe subaeruginosa, Australia’s native psychedelic mushroom

Dionysian
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 25 October
Risk in psychedelics and spiritual practice, with Erik Davis & Michael Taft

Not a chance
science | Aeon | 29 October
The social world doesn’t work how we pretend it does

Predictors
psychoactive | Translational Psychiatry  | 4 September
The pharmacodynamic effects of LSD

Legal concerns
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 5 September
Who is going to keep the psychedelic underground safe?

Première
nature | Hakai Magazine | 6 September
Legal personhood for the famous waves of Linhares in Brazil

Coming down
psychoactive |  The Guardian | 6 September
Where people go when their trip won’t end

Comparable
psychoactive | Double Blind | 6 September
Science looks at psychedelic effects and death experiences

Microdosing
psychoactive | British Psychological Society | 9 September
New study sheds light on differences in response to small doses of LSD

Group therapy
psychoactive | Nature Mental Health | 9 September
Social identity as a vehicle for therapeutic success in psychedelic treatment

Healing rituals
psychoactive | BBC | 10 September
What Western medicine can learn from the ancient history of psychedelics

Earlier
psychoactive |  New York Times | 11 September
Europe took to cocaine much earlier than previously thought

Better than nothing
psychoactive | United Press News | 12 September
Amazonian tribes awarded 646’000 hectares to restore

Longevity
science | The Conversation | 13 September
Extreme ageing debunked

Sports
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 13 September
Why athletes turn to psilocybin

Revisionism
psychoactive | The New York Times | 14 September
Tape reveals Richard Nixon’s true thoughts about marijuana

Mathematics
science | Quanta | 20 September
New shapes solve old problems

Only in England?
psychoactive | The Conversation | 23 September
Pink cocaine, a dangerous synthetic drug cocktail

Sermo Barometer 
psychoactive | Business Wire | 24 September
Mental health professionals worldwide are in favour of working with psychedelics, if legal

Pain management
psychoactive | HealthCentral | 25 September
Classic psychedelics have been found to help

Mission
psychoactive | Double Blind | 26 September
Dennis McKenna & Wade Davis to rehabilitate coca

Cannabis
psychoactive | Truthdig | 30 March
Legalization had been a great success

Cannabis in Germany
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 1 April
Legalization has taken effect with people smoking and dancing in the streets

Coming to a clinic near you
psychoactive | The Globe and Mail | 5 April
LSD, ecstasy, magic mushrooms soon to be legal in Canada

Cannabis In Switzerland
psychoactive | Swiss Info | 5 April
Selected users permitted to buy in selected pharmacies In Bern

Nova Festival
psychoactive | New York Times | 8 April
Psychedelics and trauma during the Hamas attack

Identity
psychoactive | Morocco World News | 12 April
Morocco unveils official logo for legalized cannabis products

Lineage
culture | Live Science | 13 April
Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years

Expect the unexpected
psychoactive | Newsweek | 15 April
United Arab Emirates to become 2nd country to legalize psychedelic therapies

Next question please
psychoactive |  Reuters | 15 April
Not all Germans smoke cannabis, Chancellor Scholz reassures

Narco state
psychoactive | France 24 | 16 April
Mayor of Amsterdam wants to regulate cocaine and ecstacy to defeat trafficking

On the rocks
psychoactive |  Church of the Eagle and Condor | 22 April
Agreement on use of ayahusca as a sacrament reached with federal authorities

Therapy
psychoactive |  Psychedelich Health | 24 April
How clinicians impact patient outcomes in psychedelic therapy

Am I only dreaming?
psychoactive |  The Psychedelic Blog | 26 April
Dreams & psychedelics

Runners High
psychoactive | British Psychological Society / 1 March
Does cannabis before exercise promote fitness?

Ibogaine
psychoactive | New York Times | 5 March
An effective treatment for opioid addiction

Climate-friendly
eco | Los Angeles Times | 5 March
Voters approve measure to make room on LA streets for bikes and busses

Finally!
psychoactive |  Medscape | 8 March
LSD-based medication receives FDA breakthrough status for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Ego tripping
psychoactive | Salon | 8 March
Psychedelics work with what there is – transformation not guaranteed

Ukraine
psychoactive | Time | 10 March
On the role of psychedelics in helping soldiers overcome trauma

Nature’s best
psychoactive | Neuroscience News | 12 March
Mushroom extract outperform synthetic psilocybin in psychiatric herapy

Vitamin K
psychoactive | Double Blind | 13 March
Ketamine can be quite dangerous

Recognition
culture | The Guardian | 15 March
Berlin’s techno scene added to World Cultural Heritag list

Counterintuitive
psychoactive | Vox | 16 March
Oregon: psychedelics targetted on account of the opioid crisis

Cannabis
psychoactive | CannabisHealth | 20 March
Switzerland starts 7th adult-use pilot with up to 7500 participants and randomized control

Henbane
culture |  New York Times | 21 March
Roman pouch contained powerful halucinogic seeds

Legalisation
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | 22 March
German Bundesrat passes landmark bill: cannabis legal as of 1 April

Spin
science | Smithsonian Magazine | 29 March
Earth’s rotation is slowing. Don’t adjust your watches, yet.

Psychology
psychoactive |  Psyche | 30 March
William James about our inner world

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