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That question is at the heart of the new documentary, “Medicating Normal.”
Clinical trials by Janssen Pharmaceuticals showed troubling results.
That’s not frankincense you smell at the “holy of the holies.”
Why do so many people report encounters with seemingly similar entities after taking DMT?
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen might have discovered a cure.
A new study on rats suggests that using marijuana as an adolescent “reprograms the initial behavioral, molecular, and epigenetic response to cocaine.”
Next up on the top 10 countdown, Big Think’s sixth most popular video illustrates the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.
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Tens of millions of Americans consume cannabis regularly. They’re likely ingesting high levels of toxins. Only the federal government has the power and the resources to protect them.
Moving the needle forward on psychedelic research.
Can nicotine keep Alzheimer’s at bay? Dave Asprey explains how natural drugs can create super humans.
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Here’s how we stop a health crisis before it wreaks havoc on us.
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Michael Pollan explains what goes on during the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.
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Why did government officials stop psychedelics from reaching mainstream culture?
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The quick-acting drug could usher in a new era of treatment for depression.
Scientists are developing vaccines for migraines and sciatica (back pain) – a win in the war against the overprescription of opioid drugs.
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A study on the effects of LSD microdosing shows some fittingly strange results.
How you talk to people with drug addiction might save their life.
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It marks a first for the U.S., where some 49,000 people died from opioids in 2018.
As more and more people die, drug companies keep reaping in a massive profit.
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Patently insane: How Big Pharma gouges drug prices
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Psychedelics are crude drugs. Could neuroscience and super-intelligent AI help us design something better?
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A tech-minded approach to drug fraud could squash those who enable the deadly opioid crisis.
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Swiss researchers identify new dangers of modern cocaine.
They cost about $11 and contain 60mg of THC, the main psychoactive component of marijuana, and 10mg of CBD.
Canada’s recreational marijuana industry might not be poised to meet demand in the first year of legal sales, according to some experts.
For a drug with zero fatalities and huge money-making possibilities, why is marijuana illegal in the first place? Author Johann Hari runs us through why he thinks it should be legal.
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Some people like going to bed early in the evening and waking up at the crack of dawn. Others are most alive after the Sun has set, preferring the darkness […]
If we’re going to treat psychological suffering as effectively as we treat pneumonia and broken bones, we’d better think outside the box.
A new report suggests Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana might be reducing opioid deaths in the state.