The Middle Age Trip: Musings on Midlife Psychedelic Use and Psychotherapy with Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D.
You don’t have to be a wide-eyed millennial to have a mind-opening and life-changing experience with psychedelics. As the media coverage and scientific validity of psychedelics continues to expand, a growing number of middle aged and senior adults are taking note, and...
Last Week In Cannabis—Five Marijuana Stories You Might Have Missed
Every week, Psychedelic Times will bring you a few of the most interesting, overlooked cannabis stories that we come across. Oregon Pushes Back Against Jeff Sessions’ Marijuana Enforcement Letter — Huffington Post Attorney General Jeff Sessions hates state marijuana...
MAPS Now Accepts Bitcoin—Plus, Other Ways You Can Support Psychedelic Research
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is now accepting your favorite cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, Ethereum and even Litecoin. Since their start in 1986, MAPS has been a world leader for advancing psychedelic research, piloting studies on...
Healing with the Frog: Interview with Joe Mattia about IAKP Kambo Training
As more and more people flock to the Amazon to experience the healing power of ayahuasca, many of these seekers are being exposed to other rainforest medicines that are not entheogenic themselves, but are powerfully healing in their own right. Among these are...
Life Coaching and Death Coaching: Comedian Myq Kaplan on the Benefits of Ayahuasca
For someone whose comedy isn’t overtly psychedelic, stand-up comic Myq Kaplan has a surprising amount of experience with the use of ayahuasca for self-healing and spiritual growth. Numerous medicine ceremonies have left him with some valuable methods of dealing...
From Blackhawk Pilot to Plant Medicine Activist: A Conversation with Ian Benouis
Corporate attorney. West Point graduate. Pharmaceutical company representative. Helicopter pilot for the American drug war in Panama. These are not the usual bylines one expects to find in the biography of a man who fights for cannabis legalization and champions the...
Soldiers of the Vine: Healing PTSD with Ayahuasca
As clinical trials for MDMA move forward in the hopes of making it an FDA-approved medication for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by 2021, some veterans are taking off to the Amazon to treat their condition with the jungle brew ayahuasca. While the...
Oregon’s Psilocybin Society Drafts Framework For Legal Mushroom Therapy
According to the most recent Global Drug Survey, psilocybin “magic” mushrooms are the safest recreational drug on the planet—even less dangerous than marijuana. Yet, despite the fungi’s wealth of medical benefits—including potential treatment for addiction, depression...
Psychedelic Book Suggestions: Classics & Beyond
Information about psychedelic history, science, and culture can be found in movies, podcasts, and on various websites on the Internet (Erowid and MAPS are two excellent places to start), but books remain among the best resources available for expanding one’s knowledge...
Why Oregon Is Right to Decriminalize Cocaine, Meth and Heroin
The lush Pacific Northwest state of Oregon was in the news earlier this month for passing a radical new bill that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. House Bill 2355 will take steps to “decriminalize” hard drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and...
