Ifetayo Harvey, Fordham Law Review This Essay calls for a reimagining of how the United States approaches drug policy, starting with the abolition of the DEA. In making the case for abolition, this Essay will proceed in three parts. First, Part I will provide a brief history of the DEA and its mandate as prescribed…
Introducing Petrie-Flom’s POPLAR and PULSE Affiliated Researchers on Psychedelics
Bill of Health // Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center is excited to announce our affiliated researchers for the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) and our new project, Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience (PULSE). Through research, writing, workshops, and other projects, POPLAR and PULSE affiliated researchers will provide expertise and a range of perspectives on psychedelics law and policy. We look forward to learning from them and sharing their…
Intersections with Indigeneity in Psychedelic Buddhism
Colin Simonds, CSWR Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology This paper critically analyzes two approaches to Psychedelic Buddhism by Buddhist teachers Mike Crowley and Spring Washam and explores how these teachers think through, talk about, and engage with the Indigenous communities from which their practices originate….
Psychedelic therapies: healing for the wrong reasons?
Eduardo Schenberg, Christine Hauskeller, Claudia Gertraud Schwarz, and Franklin King IV, Nature Mental Health When critically examining the assertion that biomedical treatments work for the ‘right’ reasons compared with alternative approaches, philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers1 coined the phrase ‘healing for the wrong reasons’. Here, we discuss the cognitive dissonances and regulatory misalignments apparent in the…
State Drug Laws
Mason Marks, Fordham Law Review This Essay provides a typology of state drug laws comprising thirteen categories, including decriminalization, recriminalization, adult use, supported adult use, medical use, supported medical use, religious use, social consumption, safe consumption, clinical research, policy analysis, trigger laws, and food and agricultural laws. Several states have enacted hybrid legislation that blends…