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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Moms and Mushrooms
Before that, however, there were the amphetamines, introduced to America’s moms as aids to weight loss and a source of much-needed pep.
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It’s Not Magic
Psilocybin is of course a Schedule One controlled substance, while amanita is not. As a result, the amanita products are “…often marketed as a dietary supplement…”
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A Bad Mistake
Problem: even if society passes good laws to regulate sales, how can we enforce them?
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Approving Psychedelics
The organization formed… as a public-benefit corporation, in anticipation that MDMA-assisted therapy would win FDA approval and start to reap taxable revenue that it couldn’t manage as a nonprofit.
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School for Psychedelics
Presumably, a licensed facilitator would be required to sign a code of ethical conduct, and would be subject to suspension or loss of license in the event they were found guilty of misbehavior.
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Two Ketamine Fatalities
“During our training, we were told numerous times that this is a safe, effective drug,” one of the two testified.
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Why Tripping Feels Life-Changing
What seemed so incredibly important while under the influence had lost a lot of its charm when sober.
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Ketamine, meet Placebo
Translation: the absence of adequate masking would presumably explain why ketamine appeared superior – due to an error in the study design.
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Anatomy of a Mushroom
Once again based on experience, I’m confident that many of the folks who will try psilocybin in future, because of all the favorable publicity, will fall into those ‘excluded’ categories.
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Psychedelics on the Hype Express
All that free positive publicity has surely been a great help to the emerging psychedelic industry and the elements in the financial community who are rushing to exploit it.
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Things Fall Apart
In 1961, two Harvard students ended up in the mental hospital after consuming psilocybin…” Not long afterwards, Harvard lost much of its enthusiasm for the (psilocybin research) program.
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