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Psychedelic BioTech Company Treats Gambling Disorder with Ketamine
Awakn Life Sciences Corp. , a psychedelic biotechnology company focused on researching, developing, and commercializing therapeutics to treat addiction with a near-term focus on Alcohol Use Disorder, has announced on June 2nd that they have initiated a larger behavioral addiction study investigating ketamine as a treatment for Gambling Disorder.
Veterans In Maryland Could Soon Have Access To Psychedelics
A Maryland House of Delegates Committee recently held a hearing on creating a psychedelics access fund. The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury Alternative Therapies Fund could give Maryland’s veterans access to psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine to help them find relief.
Activists Arrested At DEA Headquarters Amid Protest Over Psychedelics
Activists staged a demonstration outside of the Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in Virginia, demanding that the agency allow terminally ill patients to access psilocybin therapy. The Protest was meant to call attention to DEA’s obstruction of Right to Try statutes at the federal and state level that patients and advocates say should facilitate legal use of psychedelics.
Colorado Moves Closer To Decriminalizing Psychedelic Drugs
THE NATURAL MEDICINE HEALTH ACT OF 2022, Brings Colorado one step closer to Psychedelic Drug Decriminalization
Mushrooms Are Magic For Depression Relief
For the first time we find that psilocybin works differently from conventional antidepressants – making the brain more flexible and fluid, and less entrenched in the negative thinking patterns associated with depression
TripSitter Plans Virtual Mental Health Clinics
TripSitter Clinic Corp is an international psychedelic medicine and telehealth company enabling physician directed safe and legal entheogen treatment plans. They are currently developing virtual health clinics to help with monitoring, and coaching with patients and licensed physicians. They have recently teamed up in medical, clinical, and administrative operations with Insight Systems, PBC dba Reconscious Medical, which is a psychedelic psychotherapy company engaging in both in-clinic and online virtual care with safety, monitoring, and support provided through a proprietary technology platform.
SykoActive News Updates
Today the hot news is that Ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry with psychedelic Therapy Schools Popping Up everywhere like little Magic Mushrooms! In addition to recently announced Hawaii, New Psychedelic Bills are being filed in Florida, Connecticut, Vermont and New Jersey, as the freedom of consciousness and natural medicine movement sweeps the globe.
SykoActive News Updates
Despite thousands of years of shamanic psychological clinical trials in the wild, leading to profound revelations of apex love elevations beyond the mind of space and time. Modern scientific research is finally caching up. And we are on the verge of tapping into the extensive healing potential of ENTHEOGENS such as Mother Ayahuasca, DMT, Psilocybin Magic Mushrooms, Sassafras MDMA, LSD, Wily Coyote Peyote and the many other sacred plants recently decriminalized in the great American Cities of Denver, Colorado, Oakland, Santa Cruz California, the Great State of Oregon and the capital itself, Washington DC.
SykoActive News Updates
The latest states to join us on our quest for consciousness freedom are Florida and New Jersey, who have taken the next steps in clinical trials of entheogens. Oregon also just officially decriminalized all drugs and replaced jail time with a $100 fine for public possession or intoxication, along with a health assessment for addiction and mental health issues, which seems like a healthier step in the right direction.
MindCure Health Halts Operations
Among the first casualties of the psychedelic revolution is MindCure Health (MCURF), which was focused on mental health and wellness. The company’s CEO, Philip Tapley announced they were shutting down operations due to a lack of funding and decided to immediately eliminate all expenditures outside those required to preserve the value of the Company's assets.
New Study Shows Psilocybin Treatment For Depression Effective For Up To A Year
Previous studies have shown that psychedelic treatment with psilocybin relieved major depressive disorder symptoms in adults for up to a month. Now, in a follow-up study of those participants, the researchers report that the substantial antidepressant effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy, given with supportive psychotherapy, may last at least a year for some patients.
Cybin Becomes The Heavy Hitter In The Psychedelic Industry
In the past 12 months, Cybin has expanded the psychedelic organization to more than 55 employees across four countries and has established partnerships with over 50 participants in the psychedelic industry.
Atai Life Gets FDA Approval to Study Ketamine Therapy
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized The Peter Thiel-Backed Psychedelics Company German psychedelics startup Atai Life Sciences to conduct a clinical trial on a nonpsychedelic form of ketamine for treatment-resistant depression.
Detroit Just Decriminalized Psychedelics
Detroit has joined the growing number of cities and states that have decriminalized entheogenic plants and fungi, known as “magic mushrooms” and psychedelics. Voters, including the city’s incumbent mayor who won a re-election, passed Proposal E on Tuesday night to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi.
Harvard Law School Weighs In On Psychedelic Regulation
The Harvard Law School's Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics announced Wednesday that it is launching the first academic initiative focused on psychedelics law and policy, The Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation, known as POPLAR.
Field Trip Health Will Soon Provide Psychedelics To Veterans In Texas
Field trip health has opened a brand-new facility in Houston, Texas and is moving forward with ketamine therapies for veterans. Field Trip plans to provide MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to veterans with PTSD as soon as the FDA approves these psychedelic substances for therapeutic use.
Massachusetts Cities Are Decriminalizing Psychedelic Entheogens
Another Massachusetts city has approved a measure to deprioritize enforcement of laws against the possession, use and distribution of a wide range of psychedelics such as psilocybin and ayahuasca.
California Moves Closer To Psychedelic Decriminalization
The California activism group, decriminalize nature, pushes forward with psychedelic decriminalization.
Silo Wellness Goes Public and Opens Psilocybin and Ketamine Retreat Centers.
Silo Wellness has recently gone public on the Canadian Securities Exchange. After launching a psilocybin nasal spray for Micro-Dosing, and psychedelic retreat centers in Jamaica and Oregon, Silo is currently only trading at 0.24 Cents per share!
UNLV Gets Trippy With Psychedelics
UNLV neuroscientist Dustin Hines and wife Rochelle Hines are uncovering how psychedelics affect brain activity at the Hines Lab at the UNLV campus.