(Neuroscience News) Psychedelics are now a rapidly growing area of neuroscience and clinical research, one that may produce much-needed new therapies for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. Yet there is still a lot to know about how these drug agents alter states of consciousness.
Psychedelics
Psychedelics Show Promise in Treating Mental Illness
(Neuroscience News) One in five U.S. adults will experience a mental illness in their lifetime, according to the National Alliance of Mental Health. But standard treatments can be slow to work and cause side effects.
Expert Issues Warning: Decriminalization of Psychedelics is NOT What You Think it Is
(Isaac Davis) The drug war is the most destructive and the most racist official American policy today. Millions of non-violent criminals filling up the cells and coiffures of the prison-industrial complex, millions of lives ruined and people killed, families destroyed, and dreams crushed. It is violent, deadly, corrupt and an affront to free-thinking people who should have the sovereign right to alter their own consciousness with any substance so long as they do no harm to anyone else.
Canada Allows Patients to Use Psychedelics for End-Of-Life Therapy
(John Vibes) For this first time ever, the Canadian government has approved patients to take psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms as a part of their end-of-life therapy. The therapy has been approved for four patients who will receive an exemption from the Canadian Drugs and Substances Act to take psychedelic mushrooms.