Elly Belle, writing for Teen Vogue:
A growing body of evidence, which includes recently released research, suggests that there might be quite a few benefits of hallucinogens for mental health disorders including depression and anxiety.
Imagine being a teenager in today's world and seeing this article in your latest edition of Teen Vogue. The times they are a-changin.
Cannabis
Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms
MDMA/Ecstasy
Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT
Salvia Divinorum
Dissociatives
Opiates/Opioids
Kratom
Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy
Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.
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The Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP) of Toronto are going to be holding their fourth annual Mapping the Mind with Mushrooms conference on September 22.
Mapping the Mind with Mushrooms returns to Toronto for its fourth year! This annual conference aims to bring the ongoing psychedelic research renaissance to the general public. Over the last 20 years, psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, and more have returned to scientific laboratories and have been informing neuroscience and therapeutic practice at an unprecedented rate. Hosted at the University of Toronto Earth Science Centre, we will bring together psychologists, philosophers and mycologists to address the current findings and implications of psychedelic mushrooms and more.
Be sure to add it to your calendar!
Tom Randall and Mark Bergen, writing for Bloomberg:
The Jackson family, along with some 400 neighbors in their Phoenix suburb, are volunteers in an ongoing test of Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing business, which is expected to launch for paying passengers in the area by the end of the year. The Jacksons, who Waymo made available for this story, have largely ditched their own cars and now use self-driving vehicles to go almost everywhere within the 100 square-mile operating area: track practice, grocery shopping, movies, the train station.
Kyla acts like a diva with a private chauffeur, laughs her mom, Samantha Jackson, in an interview in Chandler last week. Access to robotaxis has even managed to convince this 17-year-old to put off an American rite of passage: getting her driver’s license. As Kyla puts it, “What’s the point?”
What's the point, indeed. I'm almost twice as old as Kyla, but I have felt the same way for a long time. This comprehensive update on autonomous vehicles is well worth a read.
Marco, writing for Green Camp:
Much like the carefully orchestrated de-legalization of cannabis during the 1930’s, there was a powerful decades-long misleading campaign against psilocybin mushrooms which caused a deep-rooted fear and a subsequent public rejection of this substance. [...]
In the following section we will acquaint ourselves with psilocybin mushrooms a bit better, before moving on to the studies which demonstrate their extensive therapeutic potential.
This is an excellent resource for information about magic mushrooms, including a unique (and evidence-based) infographic titled "4 Medical Benefits of Psilocybin Mushrooms." And if you enjoy a good trip report, it's worth checking out the section about Marco's experiences with psilocybin mushrooms toward the bottom of the piece.
