Category: good to know

january 25 – good to know

Healing the feminine
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | December
Psilocybin and women’s health

Past wrongs
culture | igh Country News | 1 December
California’s Black reparations shift toward land access, ownership and stewardship.

Presidential
psychoactive | Mother Jones | 2 December
Hunter Biden Got a Pardon. Will Drug War Victims?

Spritual emergence
psychoactive | The Conversation | 3 December
Hospital stay after taking hallucinogens increases the risk of schizophrenia more than threefold

MDMA
psychoactive | VA News | 3 December
Dept. of Veteran Affairs funds first study on psychedelic-assisted therapy

In the know
psychoactive |   UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics | 4 December
BCSP, Psychedelic Alpha, and Calyx Law Launch Psychedelic Law and Policy Tracker

Doggerland
science |  Hakai Magazine | 5 December
Conjuring the Lost Land Beneath the North Sea

Addiction
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 6 December
Psychedelics help pick up the pieces to make us whole again

Popular
psychoactive | Yale News | 6 December
Mind-altering remedies: inside the new wave of psychedelic research

Regulated
psychoactive |   Netherland’s Government | 10 December
As of April 2025, coffeeshops in the Netherlands can only sell licensed weed

Tripping C.E.O.s
psychoactive |  New York Times | 12 December
The theory that mind-altering drugs can improve business leadership

Ibogaine
psychoactive | New York Times | 16 December
Veterans with brain injuries turn to psycheelic therapy abroad

Generalized Anxiety Disorder
psychoactive |MindMed Press Release | 16 December
First patient dosed in Phase 3 Voyage Study of MM120 in GAD

Life-changing
psychoactive | New York Times | 17 December
Psychedelics in palliative care

Longevity
nature | Science | 20 December
Whales could live twice as long but for us

Chemical evolution
psychoactive | The New York Times | 21 November
The remarkable drop in U.S. overdose deaths

What the science says
psychoactive | The Conversation | 28 December
Hallucinogens approved for psychiatric disorders

Threatened species
psychoactive | AP News | 29 December
Peyote endangered by over-harvesting

Medicine
psychoactive | The Guardian | 29 December
Traumatized first responders are helped with psilocybin in Mexico

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Forest keepers
eco | The Guardian | 1 November
The Arhuaco are prized masters of land protection

PTSD
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 1 November
A Navy Seal’s healing journey with ibogaine

Critical Dialogues 
psychoactive | Lucid News | 1 November
Psychedelics between the Global North and South

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

Discovery
culture | The New York Times | 2 November
Behind a wall of trees lies a hidden Mayan complex

Longevity
science |  New Atlas  | 2 November
Tweak to common cell protein gene extends healthy lifespan by 30%

Education
psychoactive |  The San Francisco Standard | 6 November
Institute of Integral Studies launches first Bachelor of Science in Psychedelic Studies

Influencial
psychoactive | Double Blind | 12 November
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing psychedelic medicine and mental health care

Planning
psychoactive | Redbrick | 13 November
Re-imagining the future of psychedelic therapy

More evidence
psychoactive |  Futurism | 13 November
Remains of psychoactive compounds found in ancient Egyptian mug

Healthcare professions
psychoactive | Nature | 14 November
Knowledge, attitudes, and concerns about psilocybin and MDMA  in the U.S.

Artwork
culture | Mutual Art | 15 November
Psychedelic Abstraction and the Sublime

A historical day
psychoactive | Smithsonian Magazine | 16 November
On this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann discoved LSD

Critical mass
eco | Mother Jones | 18 November
A $60 billion-a-year climate solution is sitting in our junk drawers

Seriously
science | Aeon | 19 November
The search for alien life has reached new dimensions

Chemical evolution
psychoactive | The New York Times | 21 November
The remarkable drop in U.S. overdose deaths

Right wing support
psychoactive | Salon | 22 November
Republicans and RFK Jr. have embraced psychedelics

A taxing problem
psychoactive | The Guardian | 29 November
Most cannabis in Europe is consumed in intransigent France

november 2024 – 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

october 2024 – good to know

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

september 2024 – good to know

Metaphysical
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 1 August
Psychedelics as a catalyst for awakening

Standards
psychoactive | San Francisco Chronicle | 1 August
Religious leaders lobby for better regulation and accreditation of psychedelics

Biology
science |  Aeon | 2 August
Plants and their complex behavior seen in the light of philosophy

Policy
psychoactive |  The Conversation | 2 August
Legal psilocybin furthers psychedelic comeback

Religious art
psychoactive | Atlas Obscura | 5 August
Psychedelic mushrooms in the garden of Eden

Policy II
psychoactive | Undark | 5 August
The influence of the FDA on the future of psychedelics

Fail
psychoactive | The New York Tines | 9 August
FDA rejects the legalization of MDMA for PTSD

JFK’s confidante
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 9 August
Mary Pinchot Meyer, Timothy Leary and the White House

Oceania
psychoactive |  Entheogenesis | 11 August
The forgotten history of psychedelic therapy in Australia

5 Questions for Alyssa Quart
psychoactive | The Micfodose | 12 August
Psychedelic inequity

Stoned Ape Theory
culture | Double Blind | 12 August
Terence McKenna may have been right about the evolutionary role of psilocybin

On the sly
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 14 August
In the US, drug researchers don’t like to reveal their own experiences

QED 
psychoactive | Journal of Clinical Oncology | 16 August
Oral cannabis extract significantly reduces nausea in chemically treated cancer patients

New Mexico
eco | High Country News | 19 August
Quest goes green hydrogen and long-duration energy storage

Sport injuries
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 19 August
Most athletes open to psilocybin treatment for concussions

Solution
culture | earth.com | 20 August
New technology removes microplastics form water

New findings
psychoactive | Shroomer | 21 August
Psilocybin’s role in modifying gene expression to reduce alcoholism

Australia
eco | The Guardian | 28 August
MDMA therapy before it was legal

goodnews august 24 – good to know

Skepticism
psychoactive |  The Conversation | 1 July
Psychedelic science on the test bench

Discovery
culture | Live Science | 2 July
4’000-year-old rock art in Venezuela may stem from previously unknown culture

Analysis
science | Nature | 2 July
Religion and spirituality are a neglected scientific subject

Monopoly
psychoactive |  Double Blind | 3 July
Lykos moves to patent MDMA

It’s a gas
psychoactive |  The Guardian | 4 July
How nitrous oxide changed the world

5-MeO-DMT
psychoactive | ZME Science | 4 July
Mental health and the Sonoran Desert toad

DUI
psychoactive |  ASB Zeitung | 5 July
German Federal Council approves cannabis limit for driving

Support for Lykos
psychoactive | Statement | 5 July
Major scientists are asking the FDA to reconsider MDMA approval

Prejudice
science |  Aeon | 8 July
The origins of racism

Lower-risk consumption
psychoactive | Cannabis Health | 10 July
First findings from Swiss cannabis pilot study

Healing
culture | Aeon | 11 July
In praise of magical thinking and traditional doctoring

Psychedelics & psychosis
psychoactive | Double Blind | 12 July
Are teenagers more prone to psychosis?

Monolithic
culture | Live Science | 12 July
Eight stone circles and thousands of standing stones discovered in Saudi Arabia

Remembering
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 15 July
Exploring the connection between psychedelics and memory

Opioid addiction
psychoactive | The Microdose | 15 July
Why ibogaine? W. Brian Hubbard’s fight for more research

Colorful
psychoactive | New York Times | 17 July
This is your brain on drugs

Orichalcum
culture | Indy 100 | 17 July
Scientists discover metal plates said to be from the lost city of Atlantis

Across the isle
psychoactive | Double Blind | 18 July
Elon Musk and Rep. Dan Cranshaw make a case for MDMA in therapy

Olympics
eco | Bloomberg | 24 July
Paris firmly in the hands of cyclists

Addition
psychoactive | Double Blind | 29 July
Two new psilocybin species discovered in South Africa

goodnews july 2024 – good to know

With or without 
psychoactive |  The Guardian | 1 June
Do you need to trip to heal your depression?

Rejected
psychoactive | The Microdose | 5 June
F.D.A. panel rejects approval of MDMA assisted therapy

Night life
culture | Double Blind | 5 June
Reclaiming shamanic dreaming

Solar
eco |  pv-magazine | 6 June
World’s largest plant goes online, changing an entire region

Must stay illegal
psychoactive |  Dutch News | 8 June
Government commission finds MDMA relatively safe but linked to organized crime

Commentary
psychoactive |  The Trip Report | 9 June
FDA advisory board defends status quo, rejects MDMA

Drug culture
psychoactive |  Double Blind | 10 June
Decolonizing psychedelics

Lab assistant
psychoactive |  Lucid News | 10 June
Tram Day celebrates female LSD pioneer Susi Ramstein

Relations
culture |  New York Times | 12 June
Maya genome sequencing reveals surprising fact about human sacrifices

A secure supply
psychoactive | utch News | 17 June
Marijuana trial expands to 10 cities

The good life
psychoactive | Rebel News | 18 June
Canadian cannabis retailers owe almost CND$ 270 million in taxes

Essential
nature | No Patents on Seeds | 20 June
Research into international patent applications published in 2023

V is for Victory
science | New York Times | 21 June
New vaccine grants total immunity from H.I.V. in trial of young African women

Widespread
psychoactive | Double Blind | 23 June
4-AcO-DMT is everywhere

ADHD
psychoactive | Cannabis.net | 25 June
Can psilocybin help?

Cannabis
psychoactive | AP News | 25 June
Brazil decriminalizes possession of marijuana for personal use

Free
culture | The London Economist | 26 June
Julian Assange is back home in Australia

MA’AT
psychoactive | Double Blind | 27 June
New group addresses problem of sexual assault in the psychedelic and wellness scene

goodnews june 2024 – good to know

Testing
psychoactive | British Medical Society (BMS) | 1 May
Psilocybin for treating symptoms of depression: systematic review and meta-analysis

Obituary
psychoactive | New York Times | 2 May
Peggy Melon Hitchcock was a close friend of Timothy Leary

Redefining psychdelics
eco | Time | 2 May
Rick Doblin and the dream of a lifetime

Tesla’s dream
science |  Futurism | 3 May
Large solar sail to be unfurled in space by NASA

Ketamine
psychoactive |  Metro | 4 May
How a “party drug” changed everything

Australia
psychoactive | abc.net.au | 4 May
2.5 million US$ allocated to clinical MDMA trial involving flood survivors

Amnesty
psychoactive |  Business of Cannabis | 8 May
Germany is quick to apply its new cannabis laws

Bufo
psychoactive | IFL News | 8 May
This toad holds an answer to treating depression

Blotters
psychoactive | Aeon | 9 May
How the world was dosed with LSD

Positive effect
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 9 May
American users of cannabis and psychedelics have an overwhelmingly good time

Religiously
psychoactive | The New York Times | 12 May
Drugs, Sacraments or Medicine?

Psychedelic 
psychoactive | Mutual Art | 15 May
The symbolic art of the Wixárika people

Coffee Shops
psychoactive | Eater | 21 May
Caifornia takes important step towards reopening cannabs cafés

Weed over booze
psychoactive | The New York Times | 23 May
Cannabis as the daily American drug of choice

Electric Harps
culture | Reasons to be cheerful | 23 May
Bees saved from invasive hornet attacks

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 23 May
Federal health agency recognizes its therapeutic value

Healing
psychoactive | Double Blind | 27 May
When the police turns to psychedelics

Manhattanhenge
science | The New York Times | 28 May
How and where to see this unique phenomenon

goodnews may 2024 – good to know

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

goodnews april 2024 – good to know

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

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