Upcoming Events
Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: Book Talk: “Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium” with Erik Davis
April 30, 2024, 5:30-7 pm, Zoom and CSWR
Hosted by the CSWR
The CSWR invites Dr. Erik Davis into conversation for the launch of his new book, “Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium.” Blotter is the first account of its kind, centering the history, art, and design of the iconic drug delivery device for lysergic acid diethylamide-25, or LSD.
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Petrie-Flom Center 2024 Annual Conference: Law and Policy of Psychedelic Medicine
June 25 , 2024, Harvard Law School
Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center
This conference, which will seed a book, seeks to explore the law and policy challenges and opportunities resulting from increased clinical research, private investment, and political interest in psychedelic medicines.
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Essentials of Informed Consent to Psychedelic Medicine
Mason Marks, Rebecca W. Brendel, Carmel Shachar, I. Glenn Cohen, JAMA Psychiatry Analysis of the challenges of designing and implementing psychedelic informed consent practices revealed 7 essential components, including the possibility of short- and long-term perceptual disturbances, potential personality changes and altered metaphysical beliefs, the limited role of reassuring physical touch, the potential for patient abuse or coercion, the role and risks…
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An Interdisciplinary Look at Psychedelics and Ethics
The event drew 400 attendees in-person and online to hear expert insights on key philosophical, legal, and spiritual issues in the field of psychedelics and ethics, including the contribution of bioethics, decolonial ethics, the role of informed consent, as well as the value of spiritual care approaches to psychedelics.
What psychedelics legalisation and decriminalisation looks like around the world
Featuring Petrie-Flom’s Mason Marks in BBC
Psychedelics see increased legalisation and decriminalisation globally as treatment usages expand.
Front of mind for Michael Pollan: psychedelics
What is unique to the new Harvard project, Pollan stressed, is its integration of expertise from the Divinity School and Law School as well as disciplines from across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley, will also contribute. This diversity of thought will enable researchers to pursue nonclinical applications including those in the religious realm.
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