A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of British Columbia Okanagan and the University of Exeter has shed light on the potential of ketamine in treating a range of mental health disorders, including depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and eating disorders. By analyzing over 150 global studies on sub-anesthetic doses of ketamine, the researchers discovered significant anti-depressant and anti-suicidal properties. This breakthrough could pave the way for innovative and more effective mental health treatments.

With The regulatory framework of measure 109 now in place, the start of 2023 means that Oregon is beginning to accept applications for licenses to operate in the new psychedelic industry.

Enthea, a provider of psychedelic healthcare insurance plans, declared that it will expand its services into 40 markets across the US in 2023 with the goal of making workplace benefits for psychedelic-assisted therapies reasonable, equitable, and available.

Colorado Votes on Decriminalizing the Possession, Storing, Using, Processing, Transporting, Purchasing, Obtaining, or INGESTING NATURAL MEDICINE FOR PERSONAL USE AND EVEN GIVING AWAY NATURAL MEDICINE FOR PERSONAL USE WITHOUT REMUNERATION TO A PERSON OR PERSONS TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER!

Senator Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 519, which decriminalizes the possession and personal use of certain psychedelic drugs will be voted on next year. San Francisco Supervisors Dean Preston and Hillary Ronen introduced legislation that would decriminalize use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, DMT, and Mescaline.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has reversed its decision to the scheduling proposal that would have placed five tryptamine hallucinogens, as identified in this proposed rule, in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.

Red Light Holland Corp. based in the Netherlands, is partnering with Rapper Wiz Khalifa to launch MisterCap, A premium brand of magic mushrooms and truffles to the recreational market, along with mushroom-themed merchandise, decor, and tele-counseling services. This collaboration with Wiz Khalifa is to leverage the rapper’s significant social media presence and help grow the brand.

New Jersey Introduced a bill that would legalize the possession, home cultivation, ingesting, and gifting of psilocybin mushrooms for adults 21 and older to promote mental health and wellness

B.C.-based company, Optimi Health has harvested its first cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms at its Health Canada-licensed facilities in Princeton, B.C., positioning itself as a major player in the burgeoning psychedelic sector. According to Optimi's head cultivator, Todd Henderson, The $14-million venture consists of two 10,000-square-feet facilities with a combined total of 10 growing rooms that can produce approximately 2,000 kilograms of dried psilocybin mushrooms a month.

'We Should Take This Seriously”

Elon Musk, Owner of Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Co. Starlink and Solar City, is the world’s richest man and outspoken eccentric innovator of “The Future”, who believes we need to ditch the pills and look at Psychedelics, Hallucinogens, and Entheogens like Mushrooms, LSD, and MDMA as a Serious Treatment for Mental Health and Expanding Human Consciousness.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.