by judy hertz | Feb 27, 2018
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization based in Santa Cruz, California, is sponsoring research to study MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for helping heal psychological and emotional damage caused by...
by judy hertz | Feb 27, 2018
After the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Controlled Substances Act of 1970 put hallucinogens and cannabis in Schedule 1 — drugs too dangerous to study and with no medical value — research on both essentially ended, according to a 2017 paper by DE Nichols, MW...
by judy hertz | Feb 27, 2018
A lot has been going on scientifically with psychedelics over the past 10 years or so, despite being listed since 1970, along with cannabis, on Schedule 1 of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Controlled Substances Act. To get listed there, DEA had to think the drugs were...
by judy hertz | Feb 27, 2018
All through the late 1960s and early 1970s, dropping lysergic acid diethylamide — you know, LSD — was a popular and highly illegal pastime among young people around the country. Dropping acid also was seen as a danger to future generations, at least after...
