by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 2, 2018 | Anxiety
How do a few pounds of gray goo in our skulls create our conscious experience—the blue of the sky, the tweet of the birds? Few questions are so profound and important—or so hard. We are still very far from an answer. But we are learning more about what scientists call...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 3, 2018 | Alcoholism
Colorado residents voted for the legalization of cannabis back in November 2012, becoming one of the first states in the country to legalize the plant for recreational use and sale. Now there is an effort there to decriminalize psilocybin, the active psychoactive...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 2, 2018 | Pain, Parkinson's Disease
House lawmakers have introduced legislation that would make it easier for veterans to get medical marijuana in states where that is legal. The Veterans Equal Access bill, sponsored by Reps. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and Earl Blumenaur, D-Ore., would allow Veterans...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Mar 29, 2018 | Addiction, Anxiety
DMT is a psychedelic drug that is found in many plants and animals, including humans. Recreationally DMT is usually smoked or injected. In the 90s, a researcher asked people to take the drug and report back what they experienced. Volunteers said they experienced...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Mar 28, 2018 | Addiction, Depression
Mini-brains, like these developed at Brown University, are accurate and cost-effective neural models, and now Brazilian scientists have used them to map the physical effects of the psychedelic drug, DMT “Mini-brains” grown in the lab have proven to be...
