“This Feels Like Home”: How Psychedelics Helped An Autistic Woman Break Out of Her Shell
I first met Sammy* when she posted an ad in our freshman college dorm building: ‘Musicians wanted: Forming a funk-pop band!’ it declared. We had our first and only impromptu jam session that fall, then I didn’t see her again until the summer. That June, she wandered...
Denver’s Psilocybin Policy Panel and the Magic Mushroom Debate
This interview with Sean McAllister on Denver's Psilocybin Policy Panel is a guest post by Sean Lawlor (@seanplawlor). Denver’s making headlines again by forming the world’s first “Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel.” The 11-person panel is a direct follow-up to...
Special Forces: How Ibogaine is Helping Former Special Operations Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD
In this continuation of our first conversation with Marcus and Amber Capone of VETS, we discuss ways that traumatic brain injury (TBI) can overlap and complicate post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and how the psychedelic root bark iboga and it’s derivative...
Treating Personality Disorders and the Dark Side of Danish Psychedelic Research: An Interview with Oliver Hovmand
Oliver Hovmand is a psychiatry resident in Denmark who has written the world’s first academic textbook on psychedelic research, Medical Psychedelics. The book explores the clinical applications of psychedelic medicines and dives deep into the current body of research...
Veteran Navy SEAL Advocates for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Interview with Marcus and Amber Capone of VETS
Marcus Capone is a former Navy SEAL who, like many of his teammates completed multiple combat deployments overseas. After returning home and retiring from service, Marcus and his wife Amber faced an escalating crisis of depression, anxiety and suicidality that was...
The World’s First Textbook on Psychedelic Research: An Interview with Oliver Hovmand
Have you ever wondered where to find a reputable overview of psychedelic research? Maybe you’re a clinician with patients who would benefit from working with psychedelics and you want to read up on the latest research so you can feel confident implementing them into...
“An Avenue To Shift Our Lives”: A Clinical Psychologist Talks Cannabis Healing & Activism
You or someone you know may consume cannabis in its many forms for its therapeutic benefits. Maybe it’s your mother, or her mother! Psychedelic Times has reported previously on various known or experimental medical uses of cannabis, THC, CBD, and other compounds...
Psilocybin Emerges From the Underground Into the Light: How Will Culture Shift?
In this conversation with Martijn Schirp of Synthesis, a legal psilocybin retreat center in the Netherlands, we explore what the reemergence of psychedelic access and entheogenic healing means for society at large, the role of nature in therapeutic settings, the...
Psychedelics, Mysticism and Ritual Magick: Interview with Author and Historian Tom Hatsis
Author and psychedelic historian Tom Hatsis speaks with Psychedelic Times about mysticism and ritual magick, and what the psychedelic renaissance can learn from it. Thanks so much for speaking with us, Tom. When it comes to mysticism we often think of Eastern or...
Birth of a Legal Psilocybin Center: Interview with Martijn Schirp of Synthesis Retreat
As psilocybin decriminalization is making headlines across the US and MDMA is nearing the finish line for FDA approval, many people are excited about the prospect of legal psychedelic retreats where people can have a safe and well-facilitated psychedelic experience...
