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What’s Lost When Psychedelic Mushrooms Become Synthetic Psilocybin
For research in the United States, volunteers typically get the synthetic version of psychedelics. Does that matter?
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The Ayahuasca Privilege
Ayahuasca may be incredibly healing—but most people can't afford it.
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Play Parties and Psychedelics: Magic or Mistake?
Sex on psychedelics can be mind-blowing, but integrating the combination into the play scene can be risky.
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Where are All the Queer People?
The mental health field has historically neglected the LGBTQI+ community. Psychedelic research has been no exception—until now.
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There’s Now a Federal Psychedelic Lobby
They started in Denver—and they're taking the movement nationwide
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Why You Need to be Careful About the Ketamine Clinic You Choose
Ketamine could pave the way for legal psychedelics—if careless clinics don’t get in the way
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How the Psychedelic Community Can (Actually) Create a Better World
It's time to move beyond the personal healing narrative
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Rick Strassman on DMT and the Mystical State
Before we claim that spiritual experiences heal, we must agree on what a spiritual experience is.
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The Function of Awe
About sixty percent of Americans say they’re worried about climate change—so why aren’t they doing anything about it?
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Dr. Bronner’s Donates $150k to Legalize Medical Psilocybin in Oregon
In 2020, Oregon could become the first state with legal psilocybin clinics.
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What You Need to Know About Smoking Weed While Tripping
A lot of people do it—but should you?
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This Company is Developing a Drug Based on Ibogaine for the Opioid Crisis
18-MC allegedly puts an end to unhealthy cravings while sparing patients a brutal trip
BEYOND WORDS
Watch the Vibrations of Ayahuasca Songs Projected on Water
Contemporary Artist Naziha Mestaoui uses technology to make the invisible visible
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On Being’s Krista Tippett on Her Own Spiritual Journey
The radio host answers the questions she's spent her career asking others
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MDMA for Racial Trauma
More than 80 percent of participants in psychedelic trials going back to 1993 have been white. Monnica Williams is working to change that.
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Alex Grey on His Journey to Finding God
"We need to quickly understand that this is a sacred world. That is the message of psychedelics."
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The Inherent Queerness of Psychedelics
Author Bett Williams' winding road to finding mushrooms—and herself.
BEYOND WORDS
Piatsaw
Photojournalist Nicola Ókin captures the deep resilience of indigenous communities facing extractive forces in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Is Most Science News Bullshit?
Our reverence for science has led to a culture of “new findings” and sensationalistic headlines
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High Stakes
The cannabis industry has drifted from its grassroots values. Will the psychedelic field learn from its mistakes?
