A recent article in Scientific American highlights the need to reform federal drug policy. In “Turn On, Tune In, Get Better: Psychedelic Drugs Hold Medical Promise,” writer Roni Jacobson describes how the FDA and DEA created a Catch-22 situation for scientists who study psychedelics. The...
An article in the UK newspaper The Independent profiles Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, a researcher at the Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College. Writer Laurence Phelan interviews Carhart-Harris about the history and current status of psychedelic research as well as his work using fMRI scanning technology to...
Two upcoming conferences may be of interest to readers of this website. The World Ayahuasca Conference will be held from September 25th to the 27th in Ibiza, Spain. “The World Ayahuasca Conference 2014, organized by the ICEERS Foundation, aims to be a multidisciplinary event that brings together...
An article on the news site Vox features an in-depth interview with Heffter board member Dr. Charles Grob. “The Case for Medical LSD, Mushrooms, and Ecstasy,” by German Lopez, surveys the history and current status of psychedelic research. Dr. Grob discusses the potential of psychedelic...
California, the magazine of the Cal Alumni Association, has a moving article by Laura B. Childs about the memorial service for Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, the renowned psychedelic chemist. “Sasha’s work is by all objective criteria worthy of the very highest academic honors, Nobel Prize kind of...
