Brian Pace, PhD is currently a lecturer who teaches Psychedelic Studies at The Ohio State University. He was trained as an evolutionary ecologist, specializing in phytochemistry, ethnobotany, and ecophysiology. His interest in life science was piqued as a teenager while experimenting with his own neurochemistry. Brian believes in the psychedelic society movement and other grassroots decriminalization efforts to find alternative policies to the imperial drug war. He did field work in Southern Mexico, the US midwestern prairie, and the Ecuadorian Amazon. For more than a decade, Brian has worked on agroecology and climate change. Along the way, he has taught several university courses on cannabis.
April 28, 2023
This is the first article in a series investigating the Church of Psilomethoxin (CoP), exploring the recent debate about the Church's sacrament and the people involved in promoting the Church and its claims.
May 3, 2023
Psymposia’s investigation into the Church of Psilomethoxin (CoP) turns to the Church’s claims that it’s currently “scientifically impossible” to test for psilomethoxin. Psychedelic chemist David Nichols calls that claim “completely nonsensical and nonscientific.
May 9, 2023
The Church of Psilomethoxin now admits that its claims about psilomethoxin are solely based on faith. But how strong are the religious convictions of the Church?
May 15, 2023
The Church of Psilomethoxin claims it’s the victim of “psychedelic capitalism,” but almost everything it claims is wrong.
June 6, 2023
In order to present at Psychedelic Science 2023, speakers must agree to two out-of-the-ordinary requests about content exclusivity and MAPS’ reputation.
June 21, 2023
All the financial conflict disclosures from Psychedelics Science 2023 speakers, in one handy list.
July 11, 2024
Veterans deserve the highest quality treatment for PTSD. It’s unacceptable and dangerous to use veterans as guinea pigs for a big pharma profit grab without resolving safety and efficacy concerns.