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The Beckley Foundation is about to embark on its most exciting years of research yet, and we want to celebrate the tireless work and support that brought us here!
Please enjoy our new short film:
Amanda Feilding - The Queen of Psychedelics
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The Beckley Foundation has been performing psychedelic research and reforming drug policy for 20 years.
In two decades, we have amalgamated the brightest minds and the latest technologies to greater understand both brain function, and consciousness itself.
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End-of-life anxiety can ruin a palliative patients' last few months of life.
A hospital in Melbourne is administering a single dose of psilocybin to these patients which can give them a positively altered outlook on their situation as they approach death.
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We are deeply saddened today over the passing of our friend and colleague, Roland Griffiths. He was a remarkably courageous, kind and spirited human being. He will be sorely missed, and we are eternally grateful for everything his life represented.
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Alcohol is defined by the The Lancet as the most harmful drug to society. But when cannabis is made available, binge drinking drops - and so do the deaths that result from it.
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'Elena Whitham, minister for drugs and alcohol policy, told the Scottish Parliament:
"The war on drugs is over. No-one won and the main casualties were not organised criminals but the poorest and most vulnerable."'
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LSD microdosing enhances cognition and elevates mood. We're researching the brain science behind this effect
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The much awaited adaptation of
@michaelpollan
's How To Change Your Mind is now streaming on
@netflix
, covering
#LSD
,
#psilocybin
,
#MDMA
&
#mescaline
Just as the book did, this will educate a new audience about the fantastic potential of
#psychedelics
📺
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There's no evidence that Bufo alvarius venom contains any significant psychoactive compounds other than 5-MeO-DMT, and even if it did, it would not be a good excuse for driving the species to extinction.🐸
Well done
@HamiltonMorris
for raising awareness!
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A newly disclosed letter reveals that the Biden administration “anticipates” that regulators will approve
#MDMA
and
#psilocybin
within the next two years as designated breakthrough therapies for
#PTSD
and
#depression
respectively.
It's happening! 🤗
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LSD use has increased by 450% between 2008 and 2019.
Unfortunately, the taboo against LSD has meant that far less research has been done compared to psilocybin and MDMA.
We need to accelerate our research efforts to unlock LSD's potential.
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"Instead of all this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?"
#AlbertHoffman
#PeaceDay2020
#PeaceDay
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An amazing development from Denver...it becomes the first city to decriminalise
#psilocybin
mushrooms, a world first! This is clearly an indicator of the degree to which societal attitudes towards psychedelics are shifting.
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"
#Psilocybin
use grows in popularity, increasingly seen as legitimate therapeutic tool"
@CBSNews
Thanks to groundbreaking work done by ourselves and others around the world, the medical benefit of
#psychedelics
is now broadly accepted and understood
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We expect these findings to be true of other
#psychedelics
but we will have to wait for the results of our upcoming brain scans of
#DMT
.
Data from the Beckley/Imperial
#Research
Programme showing the enhanced
#brain
connectivity caused by
#psilocybin
.
Find out more at:
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🇺🇸
@AOC
says she is "undeterred" after her previous effort to remove federal barriers obstructing research into the therapeutic potential of Schedule 1 substances, such as
#psilocybin
,
#MDMA
, and
#ibogaine
, was rejected and even mocked by colleagues. 💪
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“Using psilocybin four to six times has managed to achieve what the other therapies didn’t do in years.”
Fascinating piece exploring one woman's journey with addiction, and the profound effects psychedelics had where traditional methods failed.
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Happy
#NationalMushroomDay
, folks! 🍄
Thanks to
#psilocybin
, first isolated from samples of Psilocybe mexicana mushrooms by Albert Hofmann in 1958, we are now in the midst of a
#PsychedelicRenaissance
, and on the cusp of a breakthrough in mental health treatments.
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Are you currently
#microdosing
a blotter-based
#psychedelic
like
#LSD
, or are you planning to? Do you know anyone who is? Help contribute to psychedelic science by participating in our new, self-blinded study on microdosing!
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It is "inhumane to withhold this therapy, when done responsibly...from the huge numbers of suffering humans who might benefit” comments Adam Waites, who after attending a
#psilocybin
retreat says “I find joy where I could previously see but not feel it”
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We're excited to announce the first ever policy report for regulating MDMA.
Help us share it to show what evidence-based
#drugpolicy
looks like!
The report examines the
#evidence
and proposes alternative policies to reduce harm and save lives.
Link:
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Data from the Beckley/Imperial
#Research
Programme showing the enhanced
#brain
connectivity caused by
#psilocybin
.
Find out more at:
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New
#neuroimaging
#research
shows that
#LSD
reduces the amount of energy the brain needs to switch from one state another, allowing more dynamic activity in which some regions communicate for the first time since early childhood.
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#Oakland
has
#decriminalized
entheogenic plants! This includes
#Psilocybin
#mushrooms
#DMT
plants such as
#ayahuasca
and
#mescaline
cacti such as
#peyote
!
#Oregon
is working on similar legislation for next year, this momentum is incredible!
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The first DMT brain imaging study is now complete and the first paper has been published, with another coming soon.
Increased delta and theta brain-waves under DMT indicate that the DMT state is very similar to the dreaming state.
Find out more at:
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Portugal decriminalised possession of all drugs in 2001.
Since then:
Prison population 🔻
AIDS, HIV & Hepatitis cases🔻
Drug use among young people 🔻
Drug-related deaths🔻
People in the UK are dying due to poor policies.
We need a new approach.
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Image from the Beckley Imperial Research Programme demonstrating the effect of
#Psilocybin
on neural connectivity.
Follow our social media for more
#psychedelic
#research
updates.
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We are sorry to hear of the passing of Nobel prize winning biochemist Kary Mullis. Mullis was the inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a technique that revolutionized molecular biology, and he considered
#LSD
to have played a fundamental role in his discovery.
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Class A drugs include Crack, Heroin, Meth, and
#magicmushrooms
. But mushrooms are neither harmful, nor addictive.
This makes absolutely no sense!
#alcohol
would be more at home in class A than most psychedelics.
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Happy Birthday to the late, great Albert Hofmann, the first person to synthesise
#LSD
and
#psilocybin
.
He was a close friend of Amanda Feilding's and it's no exaggeration to say that without him and his incredible achievements, most of us would never have heard of
#psychedelics
.
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The results obtained for psilocybin in the treatment of existential anxiety are more robust than any findings yet obtained in the field. Psilocybin could play a unique role in palliative care, with existential needs of the dying largely being unmet.
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A piece penned by Beckley Foundation Director Amanda Feilding.
"The medical acceptance and integration of
#psilocybin
and other
#psychedelics
could result in a paradigm shift for psychiatry."
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With a study on
#psilocybin
and its use in palliative care about to commence in Australia, the Victorian government is being encouraged to fund a research centre, in the hope psilocybin will become a regulated treatment within the next five years.
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A recent clinical trial has revealed that
#psilocybin
is safe. Combined with their efficacy as a treatment for
#depression
these findings are an important step towards licensing psilocybin for
#clinical
use.
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Extending the DMT journey has been shown to be safe and well-tolerated in a new study from Imperial College London, which tested a novel method of administration.
Luan et al., 2023 - Psychological and physiological effects of extended DMT (PREPRINT)
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“LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.” – Albert Hofmann
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“
#Psychedelics
are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are
#illegal
because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing."
- Terence McKenna
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#DMT
has the potential to increase neuron growth by up to 40%, according to new preclinical research by Canadian drug development company Algernon Pharmaceuticals, who are investigating the use of DMT as a possible treatment for
#stroke
@PsycSpotlight
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Psilocybin may be the most successful way to go
#NoTobacco
.
With 80% abstinence rates for 6 months, our research indicates that psilocybin is more effective than anything currently available.
It's
#WorldNoTobaccoDay
so please donate so we can fund more of this
#research
!
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#LSD
increases markers of neuroplasticity in human brain organoids, increases novelty preference in rats & improves visuospatial memory performance in humans - new findings from our collaborators in Brazil.
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What would you choose if you had
#depression
? Two sessions of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy, or 3 months of emotion-numbing SSRIs?
In our
#psilocybin
for depression study, just two sessions of psilocybin therapy cured severe depression in 67% of participants for 5 weeks!
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For the second time in a year, the FDA has designated
#Psilocybin
therapy as "breakthrough therapy" for major
#depression
.
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Wow!
Shocking exposé from the BBC. They 'uncovered' that when something is prohibited...it gets sold on the black market.
Who would have thought it?
If only someone could have forewarned that this would happen...
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On this day in 1943, Albert Hofmann took the first ever intentional
#LSD
trip, dosing himself with a 'cautious' 250 micrograms before embarking on a fateful, albeit somewhat unsteady, bike ride home.
Happy
#BicycleDay
everyone!
🌜🚴♀️🌞
#BicycleDay2021
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#Psilocybin
has been found safe in the largest ever controlled study. Perhaps it's finally time to reconsider it's schedule I status.
#research
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Seventy-seven years ago today Albert Hofmann took the world's first
#LSD
trip. We are ever grateful for his creative genius, his spiritual insights, and so thankful he made it home safely on that momentous bicycle ride. Stay safe and Happy Bicycle Day!
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Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a psychedelic compound found in small amounts in most living things but there are certain plants with much higher concentrations. Brush up your knowledge on these fascinating plants and their lineage.
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How open are you about your use of
#psychedelics
or other
#drugs
?
“The more people who are vocal about their drug use, we, as a society, will become less likely to vilify people for what they do with their bodies” says
@drcarlhart
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Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy is providing new hope for the treatment of a number of intractable conditions, such as treatment-resistant depression. After decades of prohibition, the new wave of
#psychedelic
#research
is finally changing our relationship with these medicines.
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Amanda Feilding telling Joe Rogan how psilocybin mushrooms helped her to quit smoking cigarettes, and how that experience led to a groundbreaking psychedelic study decades later.
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Psychedelic science highlights of 2019!
#Psilocybin
was granted breakthrough therapy status for the 2nd time, as a treatment for major
#depression
. When will psilocybin be accepted into mainstream therapy?
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A single 5-MeO-DMT experience is linked to feeling happier for a month.
Amanda is a firm supporter of 5-MeO-DMT and we are currently preparing a study into this powerful psychedelic.
Please help to fund research by becoming a Beckley Foundation donor!
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Psilocybin and other psychedelics have the potential to change the way we die. The results of past phase II research studies using psilocybin to treat existential anxiety in terminally ill patients are the most robust of any yet obtained in the field.
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#DidYouKnow
that psilocybin is approximately 20x less toxic than a cup of
#coffee
?
The toxic dose of
#psilocybin
is 5x higher than
#caffeine
, yet the effective dose is 4x less!
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Psilocybin therapy has been given breakthrough status by the FDA.
Read more about
#psilocybin
research:
Psilocybin may be the most successful way to go
#NoTobacco
.
With 80% abstinence rates for 6 months, our research indicates that psilocybin is more effective than anything currently available.
It's
#WorldNoTobaccoDay
so please donate so we can fund more of this
#research
!
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The most common reason for people 'overdosing MDMA' is that it was not MDMA.
The second most common reason is that the strength of the MDMA is unknown to the user.
A regulated market would solve these issues, in the meantime, pill testing would help.
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While SSRIs help millions of people with
#depression
, negative side effects like emotional blunting can impact quality of life
This is one of the reasons
#psychedelics
like
#psilocybin
are such promising treatments, improving symptoms with no blunting 🍄
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While Portugal has witnessed a 75% drop in drug-related deaths over the last 15 years, overdose deaths in the UK have more than tripled. We evidently can't arrest or stigmatise our way out of this problem - so what can we learn from Portugal?
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We're launching the first ever scientific study on LSD microdosing - but we need your help. Read more here:
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"Contrary to a commonly held misperception of
#psychedelics
, they consistently rank among the safest of psychoactive drugs.
There are no chronic harms associated with repeated use, and the psychedelics are not dependency forming." - Amanda Feilding
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Season 3 of
@HamiltonMorris
' Pharmacopoiea, featuring Amanda Feilding, premieres on 4th January 2020.
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Great news!
Colorado was the first US state to legalise
#cannabis
, and now has become the second to legalise
#psilocybin
, allowing over 21s to grow and share
#psychedelic
fungi and creating licensed centres for supervised consumption 👏👏👏
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When Sarah Newton MP says UK drug policy is 'world-leading', is she referring to UK topping European drug overdoses list?
#drugsdebate
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The most
#dangerous
thing about
#MDMA
is that it's illegal,
Retweet this video to show people why!
Find out out more at:
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Researchers at the University of Zurich indicate that "
#Mindfulness
training enhances the positive effects of a single dose of
#Psilocybin
and can increase empathy and permanently reduce ego-centricity"
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Will
#MDMA
be the first
#psychedelic
to win approval from UK regulators?
Following successful trials by
@MAPS
in the U.S, Canada, Israel & Switzerland, the UK is next in line with clinical trials investigating MDMA for PTSD, partially financed by the NHS
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“Funny, I’d forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you’re more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew"
#RIP
Sasha, a good man and a friend
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Class A drugs include Crack, Heroin, Meth, and
#magicmushrooms
. But mushrooms are neither harmful, nor addictive.
This makes absolutely no sense!
#alcohol
would be more at home in class A than most psychedelics.
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The next 5 years is the golden window to revolutionize
#MentalHealth
care with
#psychedelic
drugs.
@tferriss
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Lebanese cannabis products are well-known on the black market, yet the profits mostly go toward militant and criminal organizations. With spiralling national debt, Lebanon has decided to legalize cannabis to boost the economy.
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The re-scheduling of cannabis should only be the start - psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD have the potential to save millions of lives, writes Beckley collaborator
@ProfDavidNutt
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A recent poll shows that a majority of Oregon voters support a measure to legalise psilocybin in 2020...64% of Oregon voters support lawful access to therapeutic psilocybin services and 55% support reducing criminal penalties for possessing mushrooms.
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Psilocybin has been shown to be incredibly effective in treating depression - with the ongoing government review of medical cannabis, we hope that psychedelics will be the next to be formally acknowledged by the medical establishment.
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While psilocybin has been hogging the limelight of the psychedelic renaissance, LSD research is also advancing. A phase II study of LSD for the treatment of major depression has just started recruiting in LSD's birth town of Basel, Switzerland.
#LSD
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“I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonder child.” – Albert Hofmann
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"While naturalistic use of psilocybin is very different from therapeutic trials, our findings converge with emerging evidence from clinical trials and suggest that there may be benefits of use outside of therapeutic settings."
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Can magic mushrooms cure depression? The Beckley/Imperial Research Programme pilot study indicates that they can.
Retweet to show your support for psilocybin research!
You can read more about psilocybin research on our website:
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Mexico's lower house have approved a bill that would legalise the recreational use of
#cannabis
🇲🇽
If approved in the Senate, Mexico would become the third country in the world to legalise recreational cannabis nationwide, after Uruguay and Canada.
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Psilocybin may be the most successful way to go
#NoTobacco
.
With 80% abstinence rates for 6 months, our research indicates that psilocybin is more effective than anything currently available.
Find out more:
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The FDA has granted the Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Psilocybin as a treatment for major
#depression
1 in 3 drugs given breakthrough designations have received approval. It may not be long before
#Psilocybin
will become a widely accepted medicine.
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Today is a day of gratitude for plant medicines like
#cannabis
,
#ayahuasca
,
#ibogaine
and other
#psychedelic
plants that are transforming medicine.
Share your appreciation for these amazing plants, and help break the stigma surrounding them!
#ThankYouPlantMedicine
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You may have heard anecdotes that MDMA in combination with LSD/psilocybin can facilitate a more positive psychedelic experience.
According to new research, the anecdotes appear to be true.
This could help those at risk for adverse experiences.
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This year marked 50 years of the Misuse of Drugs Act.
Since it was passed, it has failed to reduce drug use, increased harm, wasted public funds, damaged trust in the police and authority, and exacerbated societal inequality.
In 2022, we will continue to campaign against it.
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“LSD can get deep down and reset the brain – like shaking up a
#snowglobe
” - Amanda Feilding
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To celebrate 75 years of LSD, we’re giving away 3 copies of Hofmann’s Elixir! To enter, simply reply to this post – we encourage some words about LSD, Beckley, psychedelic research, or drug policy. On 25/04, we will select both our favourite and a random comment. Good luck!
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"We had the best outcome data here with MDMA that I’ve ever seen for any study," Bessel Van derk Kolk.
MDMA research continues to be promising study after study. The dream of it becoming medicine inches ever closer!
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"[One company] wants to develop
#psilocybin
in a lab—so no need to extract it from mushrooms."
Should we tell him that no-one needs to extract psilocybin from
#magicmushrooms
because our gut does a great job of it already?
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Microdosed LSD: Finally a breakthrough for
#Alzheimers
disease?
A Phase I trial confirmed the safety and tolerability of low doses of
#LSD
in healthy adults. The next step will be to study if it can halt the progression of Alzheimer's.
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Muhammad Lukman, a Malaysian father of one, has been sentenced to death by hanging. His crime was providing medicinal cannabis oil, free of charge, to patients suffering from debilitating ailments.
This is the inhumanity of the war on drugs.
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The government of
#Iceland
has proposed the
#decriminalisation
of
#drugs
for personal use by adults, and last week launched a consultation exercise to gauge public opinion. 🇮🇸
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The UK is the world's largest producer and exporter of legal
#cannabis
for medical and scientific use. Yet the UK’s drug laws are inconsistent and contradictory, criminalising thousands of patients who use it to treat chronic conditions.
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"Classic psychedelics, namely LSD and psilocybin, rate among the lowest risks when compared to other recreational drugs including alcohol, cannabis and tobacco"
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