Tag: MUSHROOMS
Although the DEA classifies shrooms as a Schedule 1 drug — a classification that’s supposed to be reserved for the most dangerous of substances — according to scientists, it’s not nearly as dangerous as the the government claims. Researchers Teri Krebs and husband Pål-Ørjan Johansen argue in a letter to Lancet Psychiatry journal, that the […]
Cool-ass researchers in London did a study involving magic mushrooms and the brain with the hope of better understanding why psychedelic drugs are so awesome (and potentially be used to treat depression), reports Wired. What they found is that when a person takes shrooms, the brain becomes “hyper connected” and fosters communication between “regions that […]
The scientific community continues to embrace tentatively hug psychedelic therapy, and with good cause. In a new Johns Hopkins University study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, “just two or three experiences” tripping on mushrooms helped a dozen volunteers struggling with a long-term smoking addiction quit. The success rate is twice that of “the gold standard medication”/Big Pharma cessation aids like Pfizer Inc.’s Chantix. […]
Recently, researchers have been rethinking psychedelic therapy, exploring psilocybin treatments of PTSD, death anxiety during the late stages of cancer and similar ailments. According to an article on AlterNet, what sets contemporary trials apart is “the new crop of establishment-oriented academics are exceedingly cautious and responsible” as opposed to researchers of the ’60s, which were a little too enthusiastic in […]
Somewhere in 17th Century England, a group of deserting soldiers encounters a “necromancer” and “alchemist,” who forces them to look for a hidden treasure in a field. Amidst their submissive scampering and digging, “The world is turned upside down and so is its pockets.” The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw called the film “grisly and visceral, an occult, monochrome-psychedelic […]
According to new research published in Human Brain Mapping, the effects of reportedly mind-expanding psychedelics like LSD and mushrooms on the brain are very similar to the state of dreaming. The study recorded brain patterns of volunteers who were injected psilocybin while laying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. The psilocybin caused “the primitive brain network” linked […]
According to research published in the Cloning & Evolution issue of the Annals of Improbable Research, Viagra makes more mushrooms! Specifically, chemical ingestion of the synthetic boner enhancer compound Sildenafil shows “a significant growth increase as expressed by the numerical density” in “phallus-like” Boletaceae mushrooms. The “fractal” growth means that while this induces the growth of denser mushrooms and greater numbers, they’re actually […]
In today’s fun-recreational-substances-that-may-also-have-medical-uses news, research published this week in Experimental Brain Research suggests psilocybin mushrooms may have positive effects for victims of post-traumatic stress disorder. The study, led by Dr. Briony Catlow of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, found that low doses of psilocybin eased conditioned fear in mice. A group of mice–some dosed with shrooms, some not–were […]
