Category: good to know

Reliability
life | Pnos | 2 June 22
Dogs are better at sniffing out Covid-19 than chemical tests

Opioid deaths
psychoactive | The New York Times | 5 June 22
British Columbia grants moratorium for four addictive substances

Affordable housing
life | Jacobin | 5 June 22
LA Tenants Association forces district to purchase their building to keep it affordable

The cannabis & psilocybin industries
psychoactive | The Microdose | 6 June 22
Five questions for Reggie Harris

The Makah
culture | BBC | 6 June 22
Ozette, a two-thousand-year-old village in the Pacific North-West

Ayahuasca
psychoactive |  The Microdose | 6 June 22
Five questions for Fernanda Palhano Xavier de Fontes

Hydrogen
eco | pv-magazine | 7 June 22
Cartridges for use in daily life to become marketable

Bookworms
culture | The New York Times | 7 June 22
An App chooses new books for you to read

Female participation
psychoactive | Dame | 8 June 22
The role of women in psychedelics

Cannabis
psychoactive | Neoscope | 14 June 22
Smoking weed makes you a nicer and less greedy person, science says

Travel
psychoactive | The Conversation | 14 June 22
Cannabis tourism is taking off

Darker skies movement
nature | BBC | 15 June 22
The benefits of nights without light pollution

How to change your mind
psychoactive | boingboing | 16 June 22
Netflix to make four-part adaptation of Michael Pollan’s book

Psychedelic dawn
psychoactive | Lucid News | 21 June 22
MDMA soon to get final approval from the FDA

Prohibitively strong
psychoactive |  The New York Times | 23 June 22
Teenager are paying a high price for smoking cannabis oils and waxes

Veterans Affairs
psychoactive | The New York Times | 23 June 22
Psychedelic therapy returns after sixty years

An ancient Jewish rite
psychoactive | The Guardian | 25 June 22
Rabbi faces 32 years in jail for distributing psychedelics he claims are ritually used in Judaism

CRISPR
science |The New York Times | 27 June 22
Ten years of gene editing and its results

Losing their religion
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 28 June 22
Mormons leaving the flock to find faith in psilocybin

Psychedelic gold rush
psychoactive | The Drum | 2 May 22
Selling the future of mental healthcare to the masses

Psychedelic startups
psychoactive |  Tech Crunch | 2 May 22
Five investors and their ethic

Key treatment for PTSD
psychoactive | Smithsonian Magazine | 3 May 22
MDMA and psilocybin show promise in first tests

Trippy
psychoactive | boingboing | 7 May 22
The cult status of the painting ‘Hide and Seek’ (1940)

Uni Hospital Basel
psychoactive | MindMed | 11 May 22
Positive data for LSD in anxiety trial

Raising consciousness
psychoactive |  The New Yorker | 12 May 22
Psychedelic shamans heading to Davos

Asteroid ahead
science | Inverse | 16 May 22
Large flying object coming closest on 13 June

Mescaline
psychoactive | Lucid News | 17 May 22
Treating alcohol use disorder

Australia
psychoactive | CSIRO | 18 May 22
National science agency aims to develop psychedelic medicines

Resting state
psychoactive | Harvard Medicine | 18 May 22
Altering perception on psychedelics

Neurologically
psychoactive | The Conversation | 19 May 22
How psilocybin effects the brain

Don’t call the doctor
nature | iScience | 19 May 22
Evidence of self-medication among dolphins

Resetting the mind
psychoactive | The New York Times | 22 May 22
Female veterans turn to psychedelic therapy

Art hunt
psychoactive | boingboing | 23 May 22
Game of shrooms played worldwide on 11 June

Jewish psychedelic support
psychoactive | The Microdose | 23 May 22
Five questions for rabbi Zac Kamenetz

Rsearch
psychoactive | UC Davis | 23 May 22
$2.7M grant to UC Davis to find new addiction treatments related to psychedelics

Vitamin K
psychoactive | Smithsonian Magazine | 24 May 22
The past, present and future of treating depression with Ketamine

Great-Grandfather
nature | The Guardian | 26 May 22
The oldest tree is the world may live in Chile

MDMA
psychoactive | The New York Times | 29 May 22
Prospects of long term healing for those suffering PTSD

Up yours?
psychoactive | Lucid | 31 March 22
Boofing and why people do it

Exo-planets
science |  New York Times | 2 April 22
There’s more between heaven and earth… much more!

LSD capitalism
psychoactive | Jacobin | 2 April 22
A bad trip for us all?

Business boom
psychoactive | Lucid | 5 April 22
Hi-end cannabis tourism for Thailand

The Mushroom Speaks
psychoactive | The Guardian | 6 April 22
Electrical impulses sent by mycological organisms could be like human language

Conflict resolution
psychoactive |  BIG THINK | 6 April 22
Peace building with ayahuasca in the Middle East

Cannabis ecosystems
psychoactive | High Country News | 7 April 22
Weed farms: a rarely researched industry

Spirituality
psychoactive | Lucid News | 9 April 22
Psychedelics linked to neo-shamanistic beliefs

Psychedelics & autism
psychoactive |The Microdose | 11 April 22
Five questions for Aaron Orsini

Psilocybin & depression
psychoactive | The New York Times | 11 April 22
Shrooms alleviated symptoms and generated detectable neural responses that lasted weeks

Therapized
psychoactive | Neo.Life | 14 April 22
Psychedelics as a prescription drug

Origins
science | Inverse | 14 April 22
How homo sapiens came to rule the planet

Cannabis from space
psychoactive | Futurism | 20 April 22
Former astronaut promises breakthrough from a biological science perspective’

THCV
psychoactive | Mashable | 20 April 22
Can ‘diet THC’ stop the munchies?

Legal or not
psychoactive | High Country News | 20 April 22
Marijuana is reshaping the West

Pain relief
science | New York Times | 26 April 22
Virtual reality seems to offer a way out for chronic sufferers

Where mushrooms grow
psychoactive | National Geographics | 26 April 22
Maybe even in your own backyard?

Five questions
psychoactive | The Microdose | 28 February 22
This week with David Casimir, founder of the library Porta Sophia

Revealed
culture | Vice | 2 March 22
How Stonehenge worked

Connecting the plant world
nature | The Guardian | 3 March 22
Mushrooms keep the world together

No chemistry
psychoactive | c&en | 6 March 22
Should the trip be engineered out of psychedelics?

Motion sickness
science |  The Conversation | 10 March 22
Why some people feel sick in cars or trains

Marijuana retail sales licenses 
psychoactive | Mic | 10 March 22
New York gives cannabis convicts preferential treatment

Dream team
psychoactive | Business Insider | 10 March 22
Johns Hopkins, Yale and NYC create joint psychiatrist training program

Psilocybin dispensaries
psychoactive | CBC | 16 March 22
Shrooms sold openly in Vancouver

Poop to power
eco | Reasons to be cheerful| 17 March 22
Oregon is turning sewage into an endless supply of green energy

Ghostbusters
science | The Byte | 18 March 22
Scientists say dark matter is all around us

Black psychedelia
psychoactive | New York Times | 10 February 22
An overlooked contribution

New insights
psychoactive | Inverse | 18 March 22
Psychedelics and the brain

Giant Leap
eco | Mother Jones | 18 March 22
Efficiency of producing hydrogen greatly improved

Living past
science | Wired | 20 March 22
Scientists watch memory develop

Siri, bring me weed!
psychoactive | Mashable | 20 March 22
Buying cannabis at your App store

Headed for extinction?
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 21 March 22
Octavio Rettig and the Sonoran Desert toad, Incilius alvarius

Mind control
psychoactive | The Nation | 22 March 22
The secret black history of LSD

Ketamine
psychoactive | The Globe and Mail | 24 March 22
Your brain on Special K

Psychedelic masculinity 
culture | Lucid | 24 March 22
Sadness, fear, and forgiveness on our way to a peaceful world

Microdosing
psychoactive | Vice | 28 March 22
There’s more to it than just shrooms or LSD

A new market
psychoactive | boingboing | 1 February 22
Oregon seeking to ensure equal access to jobs in psilocybin industry

A sign of hope
nature | Smithsonian | 2 February 22
Five hundred acres of redwood forest returned to Indigenous Tribes

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Double Blind | 2 February 22
The difference between magic mushrooms & truffles

Eating disorders
psychoactive | Neo-Life | 3 February 22
Psychedelics offer a way out

Victory over Shell on the Wild Coast
eco |  Hakai Magazine | 7 February 22
Africa’s Indigenous communities continue to assert their power

MDMA
psychoactive | New York Times | 8 February 22¨
Working on marriages and relationships

Bill Wilson
psychoactive | Inverse | 9 February 22¨
How LSD helped the founder of Alcoholic Anonymous

The new molly?
science | New Scientist | 9 February 22
Drug that helps people fall in love soon to be a reality

Pain relief
psychoactive | Vice | 9 February 22
LSD and psilocybin are the new panacea

Good for your head
psychoactive | IFL Science | 10 February 22
Cannabinol may keep ageing brain cells active

Black psychedelia
psychoactive | New York Times | 10 February 22
An overlooked contribution

Enhanced senses
psychoactive | Lucid News | 12 February 22
Synesthesia among psychedelic users

Love in medieval France
culture | Bloomberg | 14 February 20/22
The allegoric maps chartering relationships

Transcendence
psychoactive | The Guardian | 16 February 22
Brion Gysin’s dream machine to unite Brits through shared visions

Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata
psychoactive | Double Blind | 23 February 22
Ohio mushroom grows on two continents

Dr. Bronner’s Soap
psychoactive | New York Times | 28 February 22
The soap heir has been an important contributor to the legaliation of psychedelic

Paul Stamets
psychoactive | Whalebone Magazine | Volume 7
The effect of psychedelics on the psyche. An interview.

The anti-munchies
psychoactive | New York Times | 1 January 22
Dieting with cannabis

Special access
psychoactive | Psychedelic Spotlight | 4 January 22
Canada allows restricted drugs for psychedelic therapy

Earthships
eco | Washington Post | 4 January 22
Off-grid and climate resilient

Tripping
psychoactive |  Psychedelic Spotlight | 4 January 22
On the value of the psychedelic experience

Medically
psychoactive |  Medscape | 9 January22
Psychedelic medicines for mood disorders

Pushing back
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 11January 22
Global coalition for the rescheduling of psilocybin under international rules

Mind manifest
psychoactive | Phi Magazine | 11January 22
The new philosophy of psychedelics

California
psychoactive | Filter | 12 January 22
On the decriminalization of psychedelics in the Golden State

Power play
psychoactive | Cambridge University Press | 12 January 22
Hallucinogens, alcohol, and leadership strategies in the ancient Peruvian Andes

Harm reduction
psychoactive | Mad in America | 15 January 22
Peer support for psychedelic experiences

Ondalinda
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 17 January 22
Burning Man’s more exclusive cousin

Oregon
psychoactive | Lucid News | 22 January 22
How to implement the facilitated use of psilocybin

Cetaceans
nature | Inverse | 24 January 22
How whales eat without drowning

Heaven’s radio
science | Inverse | 26 January 22
Source of mysterious signals discovered

Safe injection
life | boingboing | 1 December 21
New York is opening the first site in the US

Serenade
nature | reasons to be cheerful | 1 December 21
Fish and corals benefit from friendly sounds

Revealing
psychoactive  | APA PsycNet | 3 December 21
Spiritual experiences in psychedelic-assisted therapy

Shrinks & shrooms
psychoactive | The Walrus | 6 December 21
Medical promises of psilocybin, and why is it still illegal?

Mysticism & weirdness in science
psychoactive |  Microdosing | 6 December 21
Five questions for Joost Breeksema

Hitchhikers
eco | Smithsonian Magazine | 6 December 21
The big garbage patch hosts a variety of organisms

Hydrogen
eco | pv magazine | 7 December 21
Chile, China, Australia, and Spain are global leaders

Psylocybe allenii
psychoactive | Double Blind | 8 December 21
Hiding in plain sight on the West Coast

I’ll see you in my dreams…
science |  PrzeKrój | December 21
An introduction to lucid dreaming

Sustainable
eco | reasons to be cheerful | 9 December 21
Cargo ships are going green(er)

Big business
psychoactive | The Observer | 12 December 21
The rich get richer, and the poor stay poor (L. Cohen)

Renovation
culture | The Observer | 14 December 21
Paris approves controversial make-over of the interior of Notre Dame

Conflicting views
psychoactive | neo.life | 14 December 21
Spiritual interconnectedness vs sober neurochemistry

Edibles
psychoactive | Vice | 17 December 21
Berlin subway tickets infused with cannabis oil

Heavenly sounds
science | Inverse | 21 December 21
The frequencies Juno got off Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon

Port Townsend
psychoactive | Double Blind | 21 December 21
The 13th city to decriminalize natural psychedelics

Sister act
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 25 December 21
Self-proclaimed feminist order uses cannabis as a sacrament

Mainstream
psychoactive |  The New Yorker | 29 December 21
Ketamine therapy for the masses

Transdisciplinary Research 
psychoactive | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 November 21
School of Pharmacy offers course in the science, history & impact of psychedelics

When Bear met Johnny Cash
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 1 November 21
The Greatful Dead sound engineer & LSD chemist left thirteen hundred reels of tape

The look of love…
life  | Nature | 1 November 21
is not in your eyes, but in physiological synchronicity

Legit
psychoactive | Double Blind Magazine | 2 November 21
Detroit joins Ann Arbor in decriminalizing psychedelics

Sustainable 
eco |  National Observer | 4 November 21
Towns worldwide put food at the center of their climate plans

Healing
psychoactive | The Guardian | 5 November 2021
Will the magic of psychedelics transform psychiatry?

Hippie issue
psychoactive | Whalebone | Volume 07
Psilocybin on the Psyche, with Paul Stamets

Greening the archipelago
eco | pv-magazine | 5 November 21
GrEco Islands launched on Greek island Chalki

Food waste
eco | reasons to be cheerful | 5 November 21
Milan is the first city worldwide to effectively tackle the problem

Biologically alive
nature | Washington Post | 11 November 21
The River Thames has reversed its course

Unexpected support
psychoactive | The New York Times | 11 November 21
Veterans are hard to discard when they ask for psychedelic counselling

Renaissance
psychoactive | Johns Hopkins | 18 November 21
A risky decision leads to a fantastic research program

Repurposing 
eco | pv-magazine | 19 November 21
Using US landfills could almost double the country’s solar energy

Psychedelics and the brain
psychoactive | Microdosing | 21 November 21
An interview with the Johns Hopkins researcher Manoj Doss

Boston comes clean
eco | Boston Globe | 22 November 21
Mayor Michelle Wu’s first act is to divest the city from fossil fuel

Ingenue
psychoactive | boingboing | 25 November 21
The psychedelic effects of Xenon gas

Powerful
psychoactive | The Guardian | 27 November 21
Psychedelics can change the world for the better

Shrooms
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 27 November 21
Mushroom lover MycoLoco spreads his fungal frequencies

Electrolysis
science | pv-magazine | 1 October 21
Swiss-Canadian consortium produces green hydrogen

Industrially
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 2 October 21
A new approach to work

Blades to shelters
eco | My Modern Met | 5 October 21
Denmark turns old turbine blades into bike shelters

More growable
psychoactive |  ifl science | 6 October 21
Psilocybin created in bulk by scientists uses widely available materials

Psilocybin
psychoactive |  Inverse | 6 October 21
The one ingredient enhancing any psychedelic experience

Climate science
eco |  The Conversation | 8 October 21
The most important paper of all times

No increase
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 7 September 21
Legalisation does not lead to more smoking in teens

Cleaning up
eco | Hakai Magazine | 12 October 21
Harnessing Bali’s rivers of trash

Rebirth and renaissance
psychoactive | Mic | 16 October 21
Could psychedelic ego death bring you back to life?

More wind
science | Fast Company | 19 October 21
This smart wall could pay for your electricity bill

Humanity’s deep past
science | The Guardian | 19 October 21
The truth about the ice age

Pacific garbage patch
eco | Smithsonian Magazine | 19 October 21
The Ocean Cleanup: 28 tons of garbage collected in one haul

Tobacco addiction
psychoactive | Psychedelic Spotlight | 19 October 21
Psilocybin study receives first federal psychedelic research grant in fifty years

Therapeutic hallucinogens
psychoactive |  Toronto Life | 20 October 21
A huge movement is afoot

Therapeutic hallucinogens II
psychoactive | Los Angeles Magazine | 21 October 21
Los Angeles is tripping out

Green fingers
psychoactive | The Guardian | 22 October 21
In Luxembourg, growing and using cannabis is legal now

Just wat we’ve been waiting for
not psychoactive | The New York Times | 24 October 21
Fake cannabis plants to help facilitate talking about its use

Custom made
psychoactive | The Microdose | 29 October 21
Several dozen psychedelic patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,

The Stoned Ape Theory
psychoactive | Psychedelic Spotlight | 30 August 21
Terence McKenna and the origins of consciousness

The fungal mind
psychoactive | Psyche | 1 September 21
The evidence for mushroom intelligence

Traditional tales
culture |  boingboing | 2 September 21
Iron Circus Comics concentrates on Native art

Powered by the sun
science | Reasons to be cheerful | 3 September 21
Darling, let’s get a new fridge!

Teamwork 
psychoactive |  Marijuana Moment | 6 September 21
Oregon Psilocybin Panel joins Harvard research program

Treating the brain
psychoactive | Inverse | 7 September 21
How ketamine affects depression

A life-changing experience
psychoactive |  reset.me | 7 September 21
5-MeO-DMT also cures this TV star’s anxiety

No increase
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 7 September 21
Legalisation does not lead to more smoking in young people

In storage 
eco | The Guardian | 9 September 21
World’s largest machine to capture carbon from ice launched in Iceland

Growing poppies
psychoactive | The Nib | 11 September 21
Mexican mountain farmers affected by the opium economy

Safe parameters
psychoactive | Springer Link | 13 September 21
LSD as a potential treatment for medical and psychiatric disorders

Cannabis for athletes?
psychoactive | The Guardian | 15 September 21
World Doping agency to review marijuana’s banned status

Legalization
psychoactive  | Counterpunch | 15 September 21
The case for entheogens

Free cannabis
psychoactive | Business Cann | 17 September 21
Swiss cities enlist subjects to help decide best drug policy

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Newsweek | 22 September 21
‘The biggest advance in treating depression since Prozac’

A conclusive study
psychoactive | the Onion | 22 September 21
Cannabis mostly helps us overcome life

Australia
psychoactive |  The Guardian | 25 September 21
Wave of research into psychedelics and mental health

Roll Over!
culture | Open culture| 27 September 21
AI finishes Beethoven’s 10th Symphony