Category: good to know

River Notes
nature | Rolling Stone | 3 September
Twilight of the American West, by Wade Davis

Artemisia
nature | Interesting Engineering | 5 September
Sweet Annie yields her healing secrets

Decriminalization
psychoactive |  Los Angeles Times | 7 September
California moves to legitimize the ingestion of psilocybin and other natural psychedelics

Non-hallucinogenic psychedelics
psychoactive | The Microdose | 11 September
Five questions for researcher David Olson

Canada
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 12 September
A case of sexual assault unsettles the psychedelic community

Modern minds
psychoactive | Double Blind | 12 September
The neglected history of 19th century drug use

Intake and uptake
psychoactive | Psypost | 13 September
Psychedelic use linked to decrease in alcohol and cocaine use but increase in tobacco and cannabis users

One more step
psychoactive | MAPS | 14 September
MDMA-assisted therapy for moderate to severe PTSD: a randomized, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial

Therapy
psychoactive | MSN | 16 September
Thousands sign up after Oregon legalizes mushrooms

R.I.P. Robbie Robertson
culture | Rolling Stone | 17 September
Martin Scorsese’s moving goodbye to his friend

Habitat
science | Mother Jones | 17 September
Researchers struggle to deliver safe environments for animals

All good
psychoactive | Double Blind | 18 September
From coca to kava with Andrew Weill

Substance use
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 19 September
Psychedelics as the unsung heroes of the pandemic

And why not?
nature | New York Times | 20 September
Animals do talk – science finally gets it!

Authenticity
life | Psyche | 22 September
What Nietzsche meant when he spoke of the self

Syrian rue
psychoactive | Double Blind | 24 September
The dream-inducing herbs of ancient Iran

Spirituality
psychoactive | NPR | 24 September
About chaplains on psychedelics

Seduction
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 26 September
Are you a Flow Boy/Girl?

Correlation
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 26 September
The effect of psilocybin on mood and inflammation

Concierge
psychoactive | The Guardian | 1 August
How to find the best and safest psychedelic experiences

When nature is legal
psychoactive | On Drugs | 3 August
Poorly worded laws leave many loopholes

Psilocybin
psychoactive |  Springer Link | 3 August
Potential for the treatment of episodic migraine

Conservation
nature | Mother Jones | 4 August
Brazil reports a big decline in the deforestation of the rain forest

Intergenerational trauma
psychoactive | The Microdose | 7 August
5 Questions for Indigenous advocate Susan Beaulieu

Challenge
eco | Smithsonian Magazine | 8 August
Swiss seniors are suing the Swiss state over climate change and health issues

Suck it up!
eco | MIT Technology Review | 11 August
The US is investing 1.2 billion in removing CO2 from the air

50 years of hip-hop
culture | Jewish Telegraph Agency | 11 August
The ten most influential Jewish rapperstry

Effective
eco | The New York Review of Books | 13 August
Les soulèvements de la terre – ecology with an impact

Fungal future
nature | Proto Life | 17 August
African curated Architectural Biennale shows future symbiosis man-nature

Plant parenthood
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 18 August
Generational connection through psychedelics

Two surveys about LSD
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 22 August
Help for compulsive obsessive disorder and better leadership through the right chemistry

Rural Black addiction
psychoactive | Time | 23 August
What it looks like and who the victims are

Ageing and death
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 24 August
Psychedelics are bound to change the later years of our lives

A scientist’s view II
psychoactive | Substack | 24 August
The radical ideas of psychedelic research 2.0, by Mona Sobhani

Hallucinogenic cult
psychoactive | Aeon | 25 August
A closer look at the Druids

Cannabis
psychoactive | New York Times | 28 August
The Thai weed business is set to grow fast

Shrooming
psychoactive | Live Science | 28 August
Psilocybin use hits record high in adults

No toad needed
psychoactive | PubMed | July
Rapid antidepressant effect of 5-MeO-DMT

Peyote
psychoactive | The Microdose | 1 July
Indigenous use: 5 questions for Attorney Steven C. Moore

Legal medicine
psychoactive |  BBC | 1 July
Australia is the first country to legalize psychedelics for certain health conditions

Khat
psychoactive | Double Blind | 4 July
The forgotten history of cathinone

Snow to go
psychoactive | Reuters | 5 July
Cocaine in the West Wing of the White House

A reset for utilities
eco | pv-magazine | 6 July
Small-scale PV systems drive roof top installations

Germany
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 6 July
Marijuana bill drafted

Financially
psychoactive | Briarpatch Magazine | 6 July
The global worth of the psychedelic industry

Decriminalization
psychoactive | The Washington Post | 7 July
Unbridled drug use is not the solution when it comes to hard drugs

Treating addiction
culture | Reasons to be cheerful | 10 July
Rural courts are prescribing medication for addiction

A positive end
psychoactive | Proto Life | 13 July
Depleted by her health issues, the author takes psilocybin

MDMA
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 13 July
From therapy to empathy and back

Healing with music
culture | The Conversation | 13 July
Festivals deliver blueprints for a possible future

Wild coalition
psychoactive | High Times | 18 July
A bi-partisan psychedelic push in US-congress

A dubious past
culture | Rolling Stone | 23 July
The story behind the Barbie doll

Down under
psychoactive | The Microdose | 24 July
Five questions for psychedelics researcher Paul Liknaitzky

Outsmarted
psychoactive | The Conversation | 25 July
Prodrugs and their ways of circumventing the law

A scientist’s view
psychoactive | Substack | 27 July
The brave new world of psychedelic research by Mona Sobhani

Shrooms
psychoactive | Healio | 1 June
Psilocybin therapy improves self-beliefs, increases neural entropy.

Bern, Switzerland
psychoactive | Swiss Info | 2 June
Swiss capital wants to launch pilot project for controlled cocaine sales.

Psychedelic therapy
psychoactive |  Inverse | 4 June
Rewiring the Brain with LSD and magic mushrooms

Scientifically
psychoactive |  nature neuroscience | 5 June
Psychedelics promote plasticity by binding two essential brain proteins

Mycorrhizal mycelium
science | Current Biology | 5 June
Mushrooms might save the planet

Merlin Sheldrake
culture | New York Times | 8 June
The man who turned the world on to the genius of fungi

Neuroscience
science | Big Think | 9 June
Is there such a thing as a self?

Bègles
psychoactive | Business of Cannabis | 9 June
French town first to want to introduce legalized cannabis

UFOs
science | Futurism | 11 June
One in five professors claims to have seen them

Traditionally
culture | The Guardian | 16 June
How Indigenous wisdom helped save missing Amazonian children

More research needed
psychoactive | Inverse | 18 June
MDMA changes the brain in unknown ways

Landmark study
psychoactive | Double Blind | 20 June
How Psilocybin helps treat alcohol addiction

Double platinum
psychoactive | Inverse | 22 June
Aaron Rogers speaks about Ayahuasca at Psychedelic Science in Denver

Another Stonehenge 
culture | Live Science | 24 June
4,500-year-old sanctuary discovered in the Netherlands

Collapse
Neuroplasticity
nature | Live Science | 26 June
Swiss mountain loses 60 feet (19 m) in height

History
psychoactive | The Guardian | 27 June
What you (and I) didn’t know about MDMA and the CIA

Conscious experience
science | Live Science | 1 May
Surges of activity in the human brain at the moment of death

Facilitated access
psychoactive | Compass Pathways | 2 May
American Medical Association to issue first new code for psychedelic therapies

Faith
culture |  Live Science | 3 May
Buddhists in Egypt during Roman times

Inequality
psychoactive |  Rolling Stone | 6 May
Psychedelics as a cure for capitalism

Mushrooms
culture | Inverse | 8 May
A new area of sustainable design

The Hvarts of Croatia
culture | Vice | 8 May
Sunken neolithic road discovered off the Adriatic coast, seen here.

Therapeutic
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 12 May
First psilocybin center to open in Oregon

Boon
psychoactive | MJ Biz Daily | 12 May
Canadian government made 1,5 billion dollars in marijuana tax in 2021/22

Greening cities
eco | Bloomberg | 16 May
Brussels is taming the automobile

Cannabis
psychoactive | Forbes | 22 May
Switzerland to expand testing program to more cities

Rewilding
eco | The Guardian | 22 May
Toronto’s Don River is roaring back to life

Cannabis II
psychoactive Filter | 24 May
Towards racial justice

Easy to get
psychoactive | Vice | 24 May
Procuring LSD in Japan

Psychedelics
psychoactive | Psychedelic Blog | 26 May
Activating consciousness

5-MeO-DMT
Neuroplasticity
psychoactive | Psy-Post | 27 May
Study show long-lasting effects in mice.

All we need is a miracle…
culture | The Guardian | 28 May
People flock to Missouri monastery to see the intact body of a dead nun.

Renaissance
psychoactive | Lucid News | 31 March
EU recognizes need for policy reform on psychedelic-assisted therapies

Of mice and men
science | Inverse | 5 April
A promising new path to treating addiction

Menorca, Spain
psychoactive | National Geographic | 6 April
European shamans used substances 3’000 years ago

Top player
psychoactive | Kingdom of Morocco | 6 April
UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs confirms Morocco’s pioneering role

Public support
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 7 April
Against the demonization of ayahuasca in Spain

Budding prospects
psychoactive | pv-magazine | 8 April
About solar energy and cannabis cultivation

Trip killers
psychoactive | Double Blind | 11 April
Who and what to avoid when journeying

Big time
eco | CNBC | 12 April
The world generated more solar energy than ever last year

Genetics
science | Gizmodo | 12 April
Better drugs, better health

Magic Mushroom Church
psychoactive | boingboing | 13 April
A new chapel is opening in San Francisco

Philosophy
culture | The Psychedelic Blog | 14 April
On discovering Alan Watt

Sampling
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 15 April
Nine different types of psychedelic mushrooms

Forgotten psychonauts
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 17 April
Drug use in the nineteenth century

Old & tripping
psychoactive | Lucid News | 17 April
Intake of psychedelics shows no adverse effects – therapeutically…

A last interview with Raphael Mechoulam
psychoactive | Tablet | 18 April
“Essentially in every disease that has been investigated, the endogenous cannabinoid system is involved.”

Cannabis
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 20 April
Edibles go mainstream

Postgraduate studies
psychoactive | The Guardian | 21 April
Exeter Uni cements the importance of psychedelics in the UK

LSD revolutionaries
psychoactive | Lucid News | 23 April
Former LSD manufacturers met in San Francisco for bicycle day

Faster, please!
psychoactive | The Guardian | 29 April
Joe Biden commutes sentences of thirty-one non-violent drug offenders

Honored
psychoactive | Forbes | 28 February
New psilocybin mushroom named after Paul Stamets, its discoverer

Symptoms
psychoactive | Science | 1 March
Subtypes of the psychedelic experience have reproducible and predictable effects on depression and anxiety

Patents
psychoactive | Lucid News | 1 March
There is more than one strategy to marketing psychedelics

Depression
psychoactive | Live Science | 2 March
Psychedelics my invade brain cells for treatment

Healing trauma
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 2 March
Psychedelics and traumatic brain injury

Iboga
psychoactive | National Geographics | 8 March
This plant could save lives

The solution
science | The Byte | 9 March
An enzyme can turn air into electricity, Australian researchers find

R.I.P. Raphael Mechoulam
psychoactive | Jewish Telegraphic Agency | 10 March
The father of cannabis research passes away at ninety-two

Gorilla gardeners
psychoactive | Vice | 13 March
Shrooms cultivated in the wild

Oregon
psychoactive | proto.life | March issue, 2023
The difficult art of training psychedelic facilitators

Academia
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 16 March
More US universities engaged in psychedelic studies

Canada
psychoactive | Stratcann | 17 March
Justin Trudeau: government needs to catch up with positive effects of cannabis legalization

Ayahuasca
psychoactive | The Guardian | 20 March
Profound impact revealed in brain scans

Unconventional
psychoactive | boingboing | 21 March
This lab is creating mycelium computers

Bufo
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 24 March
What the toad told me.

A big step
psychoactive | CBC | 24 March
Toronto wants to decriminalize all drugs

European Medical Agency
psychoactive | Twitter | 27 March
The potential use of psychedelics for patients with mental disorders

Oklahoma marijuana murders
psychoactive | South China Morning Post | 1 February
An illegal industry out of control

Indigenous affairs
eco | High Country News | 1 February
Tribal co-stewardship and public lands

Australia
psychoactive | On Drugs | 2 February
Medical MDMA and psilocybin legalized

History
psychoactive | Psychedelic Blog | 3 February
The fascinating story of MDMA

Couples therapy
psychoactive | Leafly | 7 February
Tripping with your significant other

Sustainable
psychoactive | Vice | 8 February
Psychedelics and club culture

Psychedelic potential
psychoactive | The Lancet | 10 February
The European regulatory perspective

Nature’s rights
eco | Bioneers | 14 February
Tribal nations: the fastest growing environmental movement ever

Integration
psychoactive | Lucid News | 14 February
The challenges of difficult psychedelic trips

Psychedelic Science
psychoactive | Science | 16 February
Neuroplasticity via the activation of intracellular 5-HT2A receptors

War trauma
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 20 February
Can psychedelics heal Ukrainian soldiers?

Karma
psychoactive | Double Blind | 22 February
Will psychedelic pharma be substantially different from big pharma?

Now what?
psychoactive | Psyche | 27 February
What to do after you’ve had a transformational experience

Bias
psychoactive | Mother Jones | 27 February
Do we actually know dogs are getting stoned more often?

Arizona
psychoactive | High Country News | 1 January
Toad lickers beware!

Cheaper
ecp | pv-magazine | 2 January
US startup to build 100 MW solar plant with modules on ground

Packaging & marketing
psychoactive | Mic Check | 3 January
When young kids accidentally eat weed edibles

Extended-state DMT
psychoactive | The New Republic | 3 January
Psychonauts are training to explore another dimension

MAPS
psychoactive | MAPS | 6 January
Positive results of sponsored phase 3 trial confirmed

Healing
psychoactive | Psyche | 6 January
Psychedelics and ego death

A healthy mind
psychoactive | Double Blind | 6 January
Can psychedelics repair consciousness after brain trauma?

Weather & water
eco | The Conversation | 7 January
How California could save rain instead of seeing it drain in the Pacific

Dark matter
science | Inverse | 8 January
Maybe there isn’t any

Manufacturing
psychoactive | The Microdose | 10 January
Five questions for the acid king

Officially
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 10 January
WHO gives 5-MEO-DMT the generic name Mebufotenin

Recycling
eco | Futurism | 14 January
Solar powered machine turns CO2 and plastic waste into fuel

Canada
psychoactive | The Conversation | 15 January
Alberta’s new policy on psychedelic drug treatment for mental illness

Happiness
life | The Atlantic | 19 January (free trial)
The key to a good life

Forecast
psychoactive | Neo Life | 20 January
The good, the bad and the everything in between

Winners & losers
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 20 January
The future of psychedelics

Marijuana
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 23 January
Improves sex and may help close the ‘orgasm gap’ between the sexes

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 24 January
Therapy may benefit those with inflammatory diseases

DMT
psychoactive | Mic Check | 26 January
Ayahuasca’s active ingredient shows promise in the treatment of depression

Advocate
psychoactive | Lucid News | 27 January
Prince Harry targeted for his honesty about using psychedelics

Psychedelic distress
psychoactive | Harvard Divinity Bulletin | Autumn/Winter 22
How to deal with bad trips in a more sophisticated way

Natural medicines
psychoactive |  Maps Bulletin | 3 November
Indigenous peyote conservation

Reduction
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 1 December
Medical marijuana legalization results in reduced opioid intake in cancer patients

5-MeO-DMT
psychoactive | Mindbetter | 2 December
Why flashbacks or ‘reactivations’ happen

Smoking
psychoactive |   Inverse | 4 December
Does cannabis cause more lung damage than tobacco?

Processing
psychoactive | Mashable | 4 December
When virtual reality meets psychedelic therapy

Patent non-assertion pledge
psychoactive |  Popular Science | 6 December
Psychedelics manufacturer Journey Colab Corp. confirms Indigenous rights to use of original substance (WTF?!)

Medicine
psychoactive | Parea | 6 December
European parliament discusses psychedelic-assisted therapy in the treatment of brain disorders

Highways
eco | Grist | 7 December
Roadside solar fields could power millions of electric cars

Nicotiana rustica
psychoactive | Double Blind | 7 December
The healing power of jungle tobacco

Ever older
science |  Gizmodo | 8 December
2-million-year-old DNA reveals ancient ecosystem in Greenland

Changa
psychoactive | Lucid News | 12 December
Reconciling faith and substance – a journey in the series ‘God on Psychedelics’

Setting the stage
psychoactive | Inverse | 14 December
How to legalize psychedelic medicine

Queer spaces
life | The New Yorker | 15 December
Finding freedom from harassment all over the world

Primer
psychoactive | Forbes | 16 December
Quebec approves health coverage for psilocybin therapy

Expensive
psychoactive | Lucid News | 18 December
Is psychedelic therapy worth the cost?

Second run
psychoactive | Double Blind | 19 December
Decriminalizing psychedelics in California

Individual
psychoactive | Inverse | 21 December
Do genetics determine one’s reaction to psychedelics?

A good nose
science | Science Alert | 27 December
Women can smell whether men are married or single!