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After 26 years in prison for LSD, and clemency from Obama, Timothy Tyler is a free man
What’s it like being sentenced to life in prison for selling LSD? Timothy Tyler, a Deadhead convicted of selling LSD and granted clemency by President Barack Obama, talked to Psymposia about his 26 years in prison, and the challenges of adjusting to a brave, new world.
Pulitzer Prize winner Terry DeMio on life as a heroin beat reporter
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Terry Demio talks about reporting on heroin for the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Finally, there’s a group giving grants to students researching psychedelics
We talked with Johns Hopkins psychedelic researcher, Alan Kooi Davis, about the Source Research Foundation, a non-profit awarding grants to students researching psychedelics.
It’s time to debunk prohibitionist narratives and calls for monopolies within psychedelic science
As venture-capital-backed, for-profit companies barrel into psychedelic therapy, the potential for the widespread privatization of psychedelic knowledge and profits looms large. Some researchers are so enthusiastic about medicalization by “any means necessary” that they’re resorting to prohibitionist historical narratives and calling for monopolies to push the agenda forward.
psychedelic.support creates a network for psychedelic therapists
psychedelic.support could soon become a useful asset to anyone interested in the professional world of psychedelic-related therapy.
Intentionally-diverse MDMA research at University of Connecticut Cut Short
The research team at UConn studying MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD is now defunct.
Hey Psychedelic Science Community, We Need to Talk About Consent
Consent is really pretty simple but also apparently complicated, due to our inheritance of a messed up culture.
Time’s Up for “Silencing” Tactics
A few years ago, I witnessed the systematic silencing and shaming of Lily Kay Ross for having dared to call attention to severe abuses of power in the psychedelic space. Her extraordinary bravery in sharing her own experience with abuse was met with victim blaming and accusations of selfishness. Key members of the psychedelic research community turned on her for “jeopardizing” the entire field of psychedelic science with her “negativity” and “theatrics.”
I Survived Sexual Abuse In The Amazon And Victim Blame At Home
The controlled narrative goes something like this: ayahuasca is good, and we need to control how people perceive it because this is a controlled substance we want to see legalized, a medicine we want to see legitimated. And if we have to sacrifice a few women who get themselves raped to keep ayahuasca’s name clean, so be it.
The Bunk Police is looking to destroy dishonesty in the drug market
If there are other harm-reduction organizations, such as DanceSafe, that are able to distribute test kits, then we won’t attend that event....the ones that refuse DanceSafe, we come in and do it anyways.