THE DOSE
your daily dose of Innovative, trending, and groundbreaking stories from across the cosmos.
Genetic Testing: A New Era in Depression Treatment
New insights into the neural mechanisms of depression and brain stimulation and pave the way for future applications in other neuropsychiatric disorders.
Retail Store In Oregon Goes Viral Selling Magic Mushrooms
Psychonauts waited for over an hour outside a Portland Mushroom Supplement Store, with lines wrapping around the building, to get their hands on some psychedelic mushrooms before they sold out.
Colorado Becomes 2nd State To Decriminalize Psychedelics
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!
San Francisco Will Vote On Decriminalizing Psychedelics Next Year
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Mydecine Makes History with The First International Export of Psilocybin Mushrooms
40 kilograms of “Magic” Psilocybin Mushrooms will be dried and shipped to Mydecine’s Canadian Current Good Manufacturing Practice facility, which has a Health Canada Schedule 1 Dealer’s License attached to it, allowing for legal import/export, research and development, cultivation, and commercial sale of active psychedelic medicinal compounds.
Millionaires, Mushrooms, and Mental Health
Investors are supporting the psychedelic industry with millions being donated to the Capstone Campaign, a psychedelic research fundraising campaign. Magic mushrooms and other psychedelics entheogens soon will be mainstream medicinal alternatives for mental and emotional health issues.
Florida is Next In Line To Decriminalize Psychedelics
A Florida bill would legalize magic mushrooms and give patients safe access to psychedelics for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. The bill was introduced after similar initiatives in Oregon and Washington D.C. were passed in 2020. Grieco was proposing legal access as well as consumption of psilocybin mushrooms. In Florida, access will be limited to people with a diagnosis of a mental health condition. That would mean limited legal access to mushrooms for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy for military veterans with PTSD and terminally ill patients.
Will Vermont Bring Back House Bill H.878?
Lawmakers in The Green Mountain State introduced a new bill in 2020 that would remove three psychedelics including, a psychoactive plant from Asia known as kratom from Vermont's list of controlled substances. If the bill would have passed, entheogenic drugs such as Peyote, Ayahuasca, and Psilocybin containing magic mushrooms will be decriminalized in this democratically controlled state.
Hawaii Says Aloha to Psychedelics
Hawaii may soon be the next vacation destination for anyone looking for a psychedelic retreat as a new state measure proposes to legalize psilocybin for therapeutic use after a certified panel reviews the medicinal benefits and science behind psychedelic mushrooms.
MDMA and Magic Mushrooms DownUnder
The annual cost of mental illness and suicide in Australia is approximately 220 billion and the rate of mental illness continues to climb. MindMed States "New approaches are urgently needed to address this immense suffering and cost to society." In response to these devastating plagues, Australia will be deciding whether or not to reschedule psilocybin and MDMA for medical use as part of therapy for key mental illnesses.