It is very exciting that our latest psilocybin study paves the way for a new treatment for depression. For the first time in many years, people who were at…
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Dr Alexander Shulgin was an extraordinarily influential American chemist, psychopharmacologist and author. You probably won’t have been taught much about him during chemistry lessons at school or in your psychology undergrad –…
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1. Key Facts about Drugs According to a 2014 survey undertaken by The Guardian, one in three UK adults has admitted to using illegal drugs at some point. That’s something like…
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The findings of the 2017 Global Drugs Survey were released this week, which gathered data from 115,000 people around the world. Although, by looking at the demographics (and additionally considering…
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Each year, around 175,000 lucky revelers make their way to a sleepy Somerset village to see how quickly they can churn the green fields of the Glastonbury Festival into mud.…
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As we attempt to get our respective New Years resolutions in motion, Slate have shared a history of psychedelics, detailing their use as a therapeutic tool for squashing vices and healing depression. Author Don…
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In the US, cannabis is now legal in 8 states. In Europe, cannabis is openly sold in Dutch ‘coffee shops’, Spanish members’ clubs and Copenhagen’s Christiania. Couple this with…
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A new species of lichen from the Ecuadorian rainforest has been found to contain the hallucinogen psilocybin, which is also found in magic mushrooms. It’s the first and only lichen…
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Ask anyone who has ever tried LSD, and they will tell you that ‘paradoxical’ is a fitting descriptor of its effects. Seeing, feeling and thinking seemingly impossible scenarios are…
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It’s an old truism that university is the perfect setting for taking illegal drugs. They’re easy to find, there are likely to be other students around willing to…