The families of the disappeared people have had to organize among themselves, do their own investigations, and push state agents such as the police, judges, and the general attorney to do their job.

By limiting the psychedelic community to a certain homogeneity, it’s ultimately excluding to its detriment.

The undaunted spirit and psychedelic warrior of love and light, Nick Sand, the outlaw chemist, died in his sleep on Monday April 24th at the age of 75.

If someone overdoses from heroin or opiate drugs and has to be revived by paramedics or police with naloxone, they will be charged with “inducing panic.”

Let’s go forward in time through the government’s ban on psychedelics, and look how it has blossomed into the psychedelic renaissance.

Psychotherapy-assisted psychedelic experiences may revolutionize how we treat mental illness. The philosophy and techniques have evolved over the past 50 years.

Part 3 | Dose #3 was the most intense, powerful, horrendous, terrifying, awful experience of my life. In the end, it was all worth it.

Part 2 | This time my dose was 45 mg of pure psilocybin. I took it and waited for the show to begin. There was fear and a sincere hope that this experience would not be as hellish.

A 3-part series on one participant's high dose psilocybin experience in the Pharmacokinetics of Psilocybin in Normal Adult Volunteers study at the University of Wisconsin.

I hypnotized some of the attendees and put them on cocaine, pot, beer, and even ecstasy. I interviewed them afterwards and asked them if it felt real. And each of them said yes. Quite real. Then my head exploded.

I’ve yet to lift my self-imposed ban on mirror-gazing, but if one were in front of me now, my face would reflect the same slack-jawed childlike wonder I felt in fifth grade as the sun-filled sky turned black while my gym class watched our first lunar eclipse from the playground.

In underground sessions, you’re taking a huge risk choosing to work with someone who may not have adequately prepared or may have dubious subconscious motivations.

Even if we don't necessarily share religious, spiritual, or mythological assumptions, are we able to reconcile between such seemingly different and antagonistic worldviews?

Many of us are well-meaning in our engagement with plant medicines, but we cannot disregard the real-world impact that our actions inevitably have, regardless of intent.

The most common consequences of drug policies, whether focusing on the supply or the demand side, bring disproportionate harm to women and girls.

I was on duty the night Alex decided to commit suicide in the communal showers.

I was able to heal my relationship with death, and that in turn allowed me to heal my relationship with life.

A legal, regulated cannabis market would help prevent problematic use and give treatment options the radical revamp they need.

You might imagine progressive drug laws go hand-in-hand with social democracy. It's not the case in Sweden.

Neill Franklin is the Executive Director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP). Before joining LEAP, Neill spent 34 years at the Maryland State Police and the Baltimore Police Department.

What is neurogenesis? Do psychedelics really cause it? If they do, what doors might that open up?

We had never seen anything like them. We had no models, societal, medical, or religious, to deal with them. Many were threatened by them.

While much progress has been made, a narrow focus of MDMA just for PTSD obscures the larger applications of MDMA, particularly for those whom traditional psychotherapy has been largely ineffective.

UC Berkeley SSDP members are organizing college classes focused on drug education.