Psychedelic medicine faces a deceptively simple question: if scientists can preserve a drug’s effects on the brain while eliminating the trip, should they?A new analytical essay...
Clinical trials are designed to isolate cause and effect. Researchers control the dose, monitor medications, screen participants, and attempt to keep outside variables from distorting the...
Video games already alter attention, emotion, and the perception of time. A demanding competitive match can narrow a player’s focus, while an expansive role-playing game can...
Psilocybin microdosing is no longer just an underground conversation. Around the world, people are experimenting with tiny amounts of psychedelics as part of routines centered on...
Cancer treatment can ask patients to endure far more than the physical effects of disease. Depression, anxiety, fear, loss of identity, and questions about mortality can...
Psilocybin and cannabis are increasingly discussed in the same conversations about alternative medicine, mental health, and emerging therapeutic research. Both have also attracted growing scientific interest...
Canada has spent decades shaping medical cannabis policy, moving from tightly controlled exemptions to a regulated medical framework that expanded patient access. Now, researchers suggest that...
The federal government has begun building the clinical machinery to deliver psychedelic therapies to veterans — training clinicians, drafting treatment protocols, and standing up data systems...
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced on May 26, 2026 a new randomized controlled trial to test whether MDMA-assisted therapy can treat military veterans diagnosed with...
A new national survey tracking U.S. voter attitudes toward psychedelics finds a substantial shift in how the public views regulated therapeutic access and expanded research—though the...
Series Navigation: Part 16 of 16 in the Entheogenic History Series.For thousands of years, humans have turned to plants, rituals, and contemplative practices to touch something...
Series Navigation: Part 15 of 16 in the Entheogenic History Series.Across continents and millennia, humans have turned to plants not only for food and medicine, but...
Series Navigation: Part 14 of 16 in the Entheogenic History Series.To understand why cannabis holds such profound spiritual significance within the Rastafari movement, one must first...
Series Navigation: Part 13 of 16 in the Entheogenic History Series.For nearly two thousand years, Christianity has been understood as a faith rooted in prayer, sacrament,...
Series Navigation: Part 12 of 16 in the Entheogenic History Series.Few ideas capture the modern imagination quite like entheogenic theories. Many across the globe believe that...
