Can Toad Venom Unlock The Mystery Of Neurogenesis? New Insights on 5-MeO-DMT
2018 has been an incredible time for advances in psychedelic research, including psilocybin mushrooms, ketamine and more, not to mention a landmark year for MDMA and cannabis. Meanwhile, some research on a much lesser known psychedelic, 5-MeO-DMT, has slipped past...
FDA Gives Stamp of Approval for Clinical Psilocybin Trials
On October 23, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to COMPASS Pathways, a Europe-based company, for its psilocybin therapy for treatment-resistant depression. According to the FDA, breakthrough designation...
Study Finds Schizophrenic Patients Willing to Accept High-CBD Pharmaceutical-Grade Cannabis Substitution
People suffering from psychotic disorders often self-medicate with cannabis. While they may enjoy getting high and generally experience social benefits from smoking weed with others, one underlying motivation behind this population’s affinity for cannabis is the...
Ayahuasca For the First Time at 64 Years Old: Interview with Rhea Consalvo
It’s never too late to undergo an adventure of personal healing. Rhea Consalvo is the mother of Psychedelic Times founder Joe Mattia, and she decided to try ayahuasca- her first psychedelic experience ever- at the Temple of the Way of Light in Peru just a few weeks...
Interview with French Psychedelic Society Founder Vincent Verroust
During a recent trip to France, Psychedelic Times co-founders Joe Mattia and Lana Baumgartner met with psilocybin researcher and French Psychedelic Society founder Vincent Verroust. The following is a transcript of an in-person discussion between Lana and Vincent...
Free Water and Drug Education at Music Festivals Now Sanctioned by Department of Justice
Every year people die at concerts and music festivals, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, it never really needed to be that way in the first place. Two of the main causes of these deaths can be attributed to the fact that many festival promoters and venue...
The Peyote People: Interview with Mario Gómez Mayorga on Huichol Plant Medicine Traditions
In our final conversation with Mario Gómez Mayorga, founder of Con Ciencia Indígena, we delve into his decades of experience learning from the Huichol tribe about their plant medicine traditions, particularly as they relate to the peyote cactus, which is central to...
A Team of European Researchers Is Crowdsourcing the World’s First ‘Self-Blinded’ LSD Microdosing Study
On September 3, 2018, a partnership of the Beckley Foundation and Imperial College London began an innovative research study in LSD microdosing. The study is collecting data throughout one year from participants all over the world, using a special ‘self-blinding’...
A Cannabis Lawyer in Portland Has an Ambitious Plan to Fund More Women in the Industry
On September 1, 2018, Oregon-based attorney Amy Margolis launched The Initiative, an accelerator program for female cannabis entrepreneurs. Margolis is the founder of the Oregon Cannabis Association and a practicing lawyer of 17 years. In an exclusive interview with...
Weird Science: Octopuses Rolling on MDMA Become More Social
Even if you went looking high and low in the world’s deepest seas, you’d be hard-pressed to find an underwater octopus party. That’s because octopuses are generally antisocial creatures, preferring alone time except for when they are trying to mate. These otherworldly...
