Category: good to know

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

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

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

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