Marc Lewis is a neuroscientist and a recently retired professor of developmental psychology – he was at the University of Toronto from 1989 to 2010, and at Radboud University in the Netherlands from 2010 to 2016. His latest book is The Biology of Desire (2015). He lives in the Netherlands.
Shaun Shelly is affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pretoria where he is a researcher and lecturer. Shaun started South Africa’s first harm-reduction centre, and currently heads the drug policy and rights programme at a national NGO. He is also on a number of local and international advisory boards. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
February 3, 2020
Psychedelic advocates have long asserted that broader psychedelic use will lead to a more open, progressive society, but there are too many instances of right-wingers who have taken them for that to be true.
February 5, 2020
Could a liquid-delivery system meant to help maintain a personalized “scent bubble” quietly usher in the creation of wearable psychedelic microdosing technology? A U.S. patent for this system is just one among an increasing list of psychedelic-inspired intellectual properties.
February 11, 2020
Shlomi Raz, CEO of Eleusis Benefit Corporation, made false claims about psychedelics. We asked multiple ethnobotanists, a medical anthropologist, and a chemist if they could help us set the record straight.
March 3, 2020
Our statement on a recent Chacruna article by Dr. Bia Labate.
March 4, 2020
Can psychedelic civil disobedience really stimulate systemic reorganization?
March 11, 2020
Many predicted an ethical storm brewing in the lead-up to the explosion of for-profit interest in psychedelic pharmaceuticals. But, were their efforts to mitigate the damage enough to make a difference?
March 11, 2020
“Play the field right and there’s money to be made even off some of the shit companies purely based on the wave.”
March 11, 2020
The new leaders of the psychedelic medicalization industry seem to see themselves as above their own self-proposed rules.
March 11, 2020
After decades of psychedelic nonprofits paving regulatory pathways and priming wealthy investors, for-profits are moving in to reap the rewards.
March 11, 2020
Psychedelic capitalists justify their decision to go for-profit in the ballroom of America’s most recent for-profit flop.