Imperial launches world’s first Centre for Psychedelics Research
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Psychiatry & the psychedelic drugs. Past, present & future
Written by James Rucker, Jonathan Iliff and David Nutt, the abstract of this article (2017, Neuropharmacology) says: “The classical psychedelic drugs, including psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide and mescaline, were used extensively in psychiatry before they were placed in Schedule I of the…
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Psychedelic drugs should be legally reclassified so that researchers can investigate their therapeutic potential
Psychedelics: Lifting the veil
Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris – head of the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London– has worked for the last few years on the brain effects of LSD, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and MDMA, conducting some pioneering brain imaging studies of these drugs. Most recently…
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The new science of psychedelics
Writing in The New Statesman , Tim Martin says: “Seventy-five years ago, in April 1943, the research chemist Albert Hofmann did something distinctly out of scientific character. Impelled by what he later called a “peculiar presentiment”, he resolved to take a second look…
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Written by Michael Pollan (May 2018), the full sub-title of this book is “What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence. The publishers say: “When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it…
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Could psychedelics transform mental health?
The BBC (Alex Therrien) reports: “Think of magic mushrooms and LSD and it’s likely that science is not the first thing that springs to mind. Psychedelic drugs are more likely to be associated with hippies and the counterculture of the…
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To See An Atom: Psychosis and Ecology
By Steven Morgan, as published on Mad in America : “I left the American South with a Jesus on my shoulder. My new world, a leftist college out West, did not take so kindly. Beliefs that earned me friends and community at home…
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Will LSD ever be accepted as mainstream treatment?
The BBC has reported (April 2016) that: “Some researchers believe psychedelic drugs could be used to treat a whole range of conditions. But will cultural stigmas stand in the way? Mention LSD and you might think of the 1960s counterculture…
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