by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Dec 18, 2017 | Psychedelic Medicine
Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results. In an April Monday in 2010, Patrick Mettes, a fifty-four-year-old television news director being treated for a cancer of the bile ducts, read an article on the front page of the Times...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Dec 18, 2017 | Psychedelic Medicine
Since ’05, the state has played host to many a legal trip. Santa Fe author and shroom enthusiast Bett Williams breaks it down. The fervent popularity of Breaking Bad has associated New Mexico with a very specific drug. But despite now ubiquitous blue “meth”...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Dec 18, 2017 | Psychedelic Medicine
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a veteran psychonaut and founder of the Jewish renewal movement, once said: “To understand the depth of religion, one needs to have firsthand experience. It can be done with meditation. It can be done with sensory deprivation. It can be...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Dec 18, 2017 | Psychedelic Medicine
Ayahuasca, the psychedelic brew that originated in the Amazon, has become popular among Brooklyn hipsters and Silicon Valley biohackers alike as a recreational drug and ticket to a living room spiritual experience. But this powerful medicine, which contains...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Dec 15, 2017 | Psychedelic Medicine
The diagram printed in the study of three different brains – each on one of the three tested substances: LSD, ketamine or psilocybin – showed the neural activity of each. The diagram printed in the study of three different brains – each on one of the...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Dec 15, 2017 | Psychedelic Medicine
When it comes to preventing suicide, true breakthroughs are hard to come by. The overall rate of suicide in the U.S. has increased since the turn of the millennium, reaching a 30-year-high in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And...
