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Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Tame Impala
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Brazil Is Giving Its Prisoners One of the World’s Most Powerful Psychedelics as Part of the Rehabilitation Process
Ayahuasca may be helping to reduce rates of recidivism at Brazil's prisons. Some of Brazil's violent offenders are being offered the opportunity for radical rehabilitation via the powerful psychedelic experience of the ayahuasca ceremony.
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Two Magic Mushroom Studies Suggest Psychedelics Increase Spirituality, Decrease Criminal Behavior - Psychedelic Times
New research in the Journal of Psychopharmacology suggests that psychedelics like LSD and magic mushrooms may make you less likely to steal or be violent.
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Could the brain produce its own psychedelic compound?
The theory that the brain produces its own psychedelic compound provokes pop-culture enthusiasm and scientific controversy. By Graham St John.
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Ty Segall & White Fence collaborating on new LP, share "Joy," touring West Coast
Ty Segall and White Fence collaborated for the 2012 album Hair, and they've teamed up again for Joy, which will be out July 20 via Drag City.
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Meeting the DMT Trip Entities in Art
People who have experienced the so-called DMT trip usually say that it transcends words, but they often feel compelled to speak incessantly about it anyway. Learn about the artworks that display these beings in spectacular form. By Des Tramacchi, PhD.
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The Mole from the Ministry
The Dukes of Stratosphear
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How psychological insights from 'magic mushrooms' may help people stop smoking
New qualitative research sheds light on how psychedelic-assisted treatment can help defeat tobacco addiction. The study, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, sought to identify some of the potential psychological mechanisms that lead to smoking cessation in people who received psilocybin, the active compound in so-called magic mushrooms.
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Reclassification Recommendations for Drug in ‘Magic Mushrooms’
In an evaluation of the safety and abuse research on the drug in hallucinogenic mushrooms, Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that if it clears phase III clinical trials, psilocybin should be re-categorized from a schedule I drug—one with no known medical potential—to a schedule IV drug such as prescription sleep aids, but with tighter control.
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Hopkins researchers recommend reclassifying psilocybin, the drug in 'magic' mushrooms, from schedule I to schedule IV
Psilocybin safety and abuse research shows that the drug has low potential for abuse and dependence, researchers say
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Magic Mushrooms May Be an FDA-Approved Drug for Anxiety and Depression in the Near Future
According to a new study, psilocybin found in “magic” mushrooms, could be useful in treating anxiety and depression.
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Different cognitive effects of dextromethorphan and psilocybin observed in new study
New research helps identify some of the differences between the cognitive effects of classical hallucinogens and dissociative hallucinogens. The study was published in the journal Psychopharmacology. “Both classic (serotonergic) and dissociative (glutamatergic, NMDA-mediated) hallucinogens are being investigated as potential novel, fast-acting therapeutics for mood disorders and substance use disorders,” said study author Frederick Barrett of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Tiny doses of magic mushrooms can boost your problem-solving skills
Tiny doses of magic mushrooms and truffles could help you to produce more new and creative ideas
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Oh Sees – “Enrique El Cobrador” Video
A few months ago, the psychedelic Californian garage-rock institution Thee Oh Sees, operating under their just-plain Oh Sees alter-ego, released Smote Reverser, a new album with a bit of a Black Sabbath doom-metal influence. It ruled.
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Descent into darkness: How a B.C. man wound up dead in Peru
B.C. native Sebastian Woodroffe went to Peru seeking enlightenment through mind-altering drugs. Then he and his shaman ended up dead. By Scott Anderson.
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Papa Was A Rolling Stone
The Temptations
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Hole in My Shoe
Traffic
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Psilocybin combined with psychological support might correct pessimism biases in depression
The psychedelic drug psilocybin could help alleviate depression by causing people to have a less pessimistic outlook on life, according to preliminary research published in Frontiers in Psychology. Previous research has found that depression is associated with unrealistic negative predictions of future life events. Scientists from the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London were interested in whether psilocybin — the main psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms — could reduce these pessimism biases.
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LSD Changes Something About The Way You Perceive Time
We measure time in set amounts— seconds, minutes, and hours. But the way time feels is more slippery.
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Psilocybin—A.K.A. Shrooms—Could Become the Next Legalized Drug
Twenty-nineteen could be the Year of the Magic Mushroom. In Colorado and Oregon, efforts are currently underway to get voters acquainted with and in support of psilocybin, the compound that makes magic shrooms, well, magical. Research has begun, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has registered its interest.
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