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PC · @PChoate
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Claustrum - Wikipedia

Ever wonder how your coordinates all your with your ? There’s a cool little spot between your ears called the . It spans across the , and has pathways to each different center and your .

Scientists have evidence that much such as may stem from it’s dysfunction.

drugs like work by disrupting it’s function.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claust

#psilocybin #psychoactive #ptsd #mentalillness #cortex #perception #corpuscallosum #claustrum #thoughts #senses #brain

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Samuli Kangaslampi · @kangaslampi
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Just finished Mike Jay's fantastic - Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind. Riveting, richly sourced exploration of from to - focusing on self-experimentation and interpretations by scientists, doctors, and artists in the 19th century.

Highly recommended! Perhaps especially for those of us researching as the book provides so much historical context, contrast, and antecedents to what's going on with psychoactives now.

#psychonauts #psychoactive #drugs #chloroform #cannabis #psychedelics

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Alan Kotok · @technewslit
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Safer Forms of Psilocybin Assessed in Preclinical Study

A company says it identified engineered precursors of a compound that in lab produce safe and intended therapeutic effects.

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#biotechnology #psychedelic #animals #News #science #business #psilocybin #magicmushrooms #chemistry #canada #mentalhealth #psychoactive #preclinical #prodrug

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Oden · @Gjallarhornet
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Deutsche Welle - Wastewater study finds 18 new psychoactive drugs

#drugs #psychoactive #wastewater

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Alan Kotok · @technewslit
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Trial to Test Low-Dose Psilocybin for Mental Distress

A developer of mental health therapies from compounds says it received clearance for a clinical trial testing low doses of .

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#psychedelic #fda #psilocybin #News #science #business #magicmushrooms #ClinicalTrial #mentalhealth #demoralization #university #canada #psychoactive #lowdose

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Kirsten Han 👩🏻‍💻 韩俐颖 · @kixes
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My newsletter on this past week in : wethecitizens.net/this-respons

The Ministry of Home Affairs is proposing amending the Misuse of Act and also the Constitution of Singapore to make the penalties for drug possession even harsher — this time they want to introducing judicial corporal punishment (caning) for possession of drugs, as well as allow to and people who use new substances. The War of Drugs hasn't worked, but they want to double down.

#psychoactive #detain #arrest #police #drugs #singapore

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Alan Kotok · @technewslit
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Psychoactive Drug Start-Up Raises $40M in Early Funds

A new company is underway developing to treat and other disorders with compounds claimed to be safer than current .

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#drugs #ptsd #psychoactive #psychedelics #News #science #business #startup #Entrepreneurs #neuroscience #mentalhealth #mdma #methylone #ClinicalTrial #finance #venturecapital

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Drew Burns · @drewburns
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An interesting discussion about a little-known and seemingly rare alkaloid (though you never know when you may see it pop up) (derived from ).
tinyurl.com/mr4a332f

#psychoactive #corynantheidine #kratom

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tolortslubor · @tolortslubor
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PsyPost - Psilocybin appears to have a uniquely powerful relationship with nature relatedness

“For their new study, the researchers reanalyzed data from five previous studies that had assessed the link between experience with various substances and nature relatedness. They found that, among people who had experience with a variety of substances, only previous use of reliably predicted nature relatedness.” psypost.org/2023/02/psilocybin

#psilocybin #psychedelic #psychoactive

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SSSP Drinking & Drugs · @sssp_dd
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and for perspectives on (aka )

The Society for the Study of Social Problems (, based in N. America) pursues, as the name suggests, a sociological understanding of . The drinking and drugs section focuses on social problems related to the consumption of alcohol and other substances.

Since is a global community, this is the perfect place for us to get caught up on the global drugs conversation.

#Introduction #request #global #substanceuse #drugs #sssp #socialproblems #psychoactive #Mastodon

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Steven Saus [he/him] · @StevenSaus
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How to Break Into the Legal Weed Industry

From 05 Jul: How to Break Into the Legal Weed Industry - Photo: Brandon Crawford (Shutterstock)The weed legalization train is on the move around America, an... lifehacker.com/how-to-break-in -wilks -finance -smoking -of-cannabis -growth -block -merchan -drugs

#psychoactive #luis #hr #flora #euphoriants #entheogens #effects #drugs #cannabis #business #adam

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