A Cult Phenomenon
...along with its newfound respectability, the widespread use of psychedelic drugs in therapy and for spiritual growth has attracted some pretty unscrupulous individuals.
Category: Addictive Substances
Alcohol may be the oldest. New ones are being invented every day. There are thousands, and keeping track of what they are and what they do isn’t easy.
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Ancestry of Alcohol
It’s easy to understand how primates and other animals discovered fermentation — it happens naturally when fruit is left to lay around.
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Adventures in Shrooming
What is the psilocybin content of any particular dried mushroom? Does anybody know?
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A Student of Psychedelics…
That sounds expensive and time-consuming, which would make it less attractive to third-party payers such as insurance companies.
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Sad, But Also True
She wasn’t being entirely altruistic– she did charge participants a cool five hundred dollars apiece– but it’s reasonable to assume that she meant well, with no intent to cause harm.
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Another wave of OD?
“Overdose deaths from carfentanil…[increased] from 29 between January and June 2023 to 238 in that same period in 2024.” That’s a heck of a year-over-year increase, although it still represents only a small percentage of total fatalities.
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Watch Out for ‘Vitamin K’
Now that more of the widely abused anesthetic is in circulation for so-called ‘recreational’ purposes, new (and strange) consequences have begun to emerge.
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Colombia Wants to Legalize Coke Worldwide
…back in the USA– drug overdose deaths ‘involving’ cocaine have risen steadily over the past decade,
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Ayahuasca Bros
What is it about having consumed hallucinogenic tea in a remote forest clearing, and as a result, spending the next few hours first vomiting, then hallucinating, and finally alternating between euphoria and intense fear, that could possibly transform the user into better, more effective corporate leader?
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How’s Your Memory Working?
As it turned out, that old stereotype of the pothead who can’t recall what you just said? There’s some truth to it.
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The Pot Docs
The real aim was always making recreational use fully legal.
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Heard of HPPD?
A whole range of psychedelic substances can apparently trigger HPPD
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The Psychonaut as CEO
It appears to attract younger CEO’s from industries such as technology, entertainment, and high finance. It’s here that we encounter language such as ‘visioning’, ‘aspirationalizing’, and ‘future-proofing’, whatever that may be.
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