The following video is relevant to people who advocate for psychedelic legalization. Cannabis lawyer Hilary Bricken posits that (a) state-level regulatory factors have given rise to “Big Marijuana,” the for-profit industry that requires deep capitalization and therefore monopoly (functional or actual) and (b) the prohibitionist movement (which is not dead, just dormant waiting for the opportunity to reassert… Read More Big Acid

The Imperial College of London just announced that a small safety trial of twelve patients with moderate to severe treatment-resistant depression shows that psilocybin can be administered safely and can relieve symptoms of depression for up to five months. The article states that 350 million people around the world (that’s all?) suffer from depression. Other than safety the purpose of… Read More Psychedelic prohibition as restraint-of-trade: results from a limited trial of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression