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(MENAFN - Baystreet.ca) A new study led by the Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research has yielded promising results for the use of psilocybin in psychiatric therapy. Psilocybin, the psychoactive compound of magic mushrooms - was pitted up against popular SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) escitalopram. Results were measured through scoring tallied after surveying participants on their sleep, energy, appetite, mood and suicidal ideations. The largely-negatively focused questionnaire attained similar results for both the SSRI and the psilocybin group - an alre...

As much as some may find it hard to believe, there are people who want to take psilocybin mushrooms but don’t want the hallucinations. Those would be people who have heard from researchers that the real ‘magic’ in magic mushrooms may be their ability to work as an antidepressant, but the anxiety and fear of... Read more »

Clinton Heylin | European Super League | Psychedelics | The Guardian Bob Dylan at a press conference, London, 1965. Photograph: Stanley Bielecki/ASP/Getty Images Bob Dylan at a press conference, London, 1965. Photograph: Stanley Bielecki/ASP/Getty Images Letters Wed 21 Apr 2021 13.11 EDT Last modified on Wed 21 Apr 2021 14.03 EDT May I share Howard Sounes’s disappointment with Clinton Heylin’s new biography of Bob Dylan (Report, 19 April). Like him, I was savaged by Heylin, in my case for writing “a pseudo-historical work”, which sounds as if I’d been taking tips from...

A bill that would remove penalties for the possession, personal use and social sharing of certain natural and synthetic psychedelics in California passed the state Senate Health Committee. The bill will now be reviewed by the Senate Appropriations Committee, after which it would move to a Senate floor vote if approved. SB 519 would decriminalize psilocybin, psilocyn, DMT, ibogaine, mescaline, LSD, ketamine and MDMA while expunging the criminal records of those convicted with low-level psychedelics charges. The legislation also “sets up a working group to evaluate whether to fully legaliz...

The group also has connected patients to doctors and therapists who oversee their use of the drug. These trial cases come amid mounting interest from researchers and investors, as well as a public push to reconsider bans on psilocybin, LSD, DMT, mescaline and other mind-altering substances such as MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy. The US state of Oregon legalized psilocybin for therapeutic use last November. Psychedelics have been used by indigenous peoples for millennia, but Western researchers only started delving into their properties and potential uses in earnest in the middle of last cent...