by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 9, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
On August 14, 2020, the world bid farewell to scientific pioneer, Dr. Jordi Riba. The untimely death of the Catalan ayahuasca researcher has come as a harsh blow to the close-knit ayahuasca community the world over. Riba was undoubtedly one of the most prolific...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 8, 2020 | PTSD
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition that countless trauma survivors, soldiers and veterans have to live with every day. Conventional treatments for overcoming PTSD are notoriously ineffective, often involving a slew of powerful...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 8, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Last year may have been all about cannabis, but it’s clear that 2020 and beyond belongs to the psychedelic medicine market. Ever since Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE:JNJ) ketamine-derived medicine, Spravato,...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 8, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
Fifty years after political and cultural winds slammed shut the doors on psychedelic research, UC Berkeley is making up for lost time by launching the campus’s first center for psychedelic science and public education. With $1.25 million in seed funding from an...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 8, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
On May 7, 2019, the city of Denver made headlines for becoming the first U.S. city to effectively decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms through its passing of Initiated Ordinance 301 (I-301). In the months that followed, Oakland and Santa Cruz followed suit,...
