by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 7, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
At 1 pm on Thursday, August 13, Zide Door—an entheogenic church in Oakland, California, that recognizes cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms as religious sacraments—was raided by Oakland Police Department (OPD) during parishioner visiting hours. Zide Door wasn’t just any...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 7, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
August 4th, 2020 – Over 100 days after they first contacted the Health Minister of Canada–The Honourable Patty Hadju–four terminal cancer patients have been granted permission to use psilocybin therapy as a treatment for end-of-life stress and anxiety. After nearly...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 7, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
Psychedelics have entered the mainstream, informing a multimillion dollar industry – but the majority of healthcare providers working directly with patients are unaware of the growing field of psychedelic therapy. The newly formed Psychedelic Medicine Association...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 7, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
Could the communion wine of history’s earliest Christians have been a hallucinogen? This is the question that The Immortality Key, a new book by religious scholar, archaeology sleuth and classicist Brian Muraresku, aims to answer. Drawing on more than ten years of...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 7, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
Your Brief Numinus has become the first public company to harvest a legal flush of Psilocybe mushrooms in Canada. The Company completed the harvest under its Controlled Drugs and Substances Dealer’s Licence. Full Press Release… Numinus Bioscience’s developments...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 7, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
New research asks, how does psilocybin create a feeling of ego dissolution, and what chemicals in the brain create our subjective sense of self? Impressive new research, led by scientists from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has uncovered a new neurochemical...
