MedPage Today // Petrie-Flom Center Obtaining informed consent for psychedelics poses special challenges for practitioners, featuring Petrie-Flom’s Mason Marks…
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…
Unlocking Transformation: The Crucial Role of Psychedelic Integration
Center for the Study of World Religions The event, part of the “Psychedelics and the Future of Religion, Transcendence, and Transformation” programming series, focused on integration, a pivotal aspect of psychedelic therapy and spiritual experiences. The panelists collectively addressed the diverse frameworks and methodologies used in integration, ranging from training models to ethnographic studies and…
Treat addiction with psychedelics?
Harvard Gazette // Petrie-Flom Center Despite promise of success stories from patients in recovery, Law School panel cautions that research is lacking on benefits vs. risks…
What psychedelics legalisation and decriminalisation looks like around the world
BBC // Petrie-Flom Center Featuring Petrie-Flom’s Mason Marks in BBC: Psychedelics see increased legalisation and decriminalisation globally as treatment usages expand….
The Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR)
Ongoing Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is engaged in a three-year initiative to examine the ethical, legal, and social implications of psychedelics research, commerce, and therapeutics. Launched in summer 2021 with a generous grant from the Saisei Foundation, the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the…
Towards Intersectionality in Critical Psychedelic Studies: The Psychedelic Intersections Conference
Center for the Study of World Religions The “Psychedelic Intersections: Cross-cultural Manifestations of the Sacred” conference, held at Harvard Divinity School on February 17, 2024, provided an unprecedented forum for the exploration of psychedelic spirituality across diverse cultural and disciplinary landscapes, and welcomed more than 230 in-person and 800 remote attendees. The conference sought to…
Why regulators may toss cold water on buzz over psychedelics
The Harvard Gazette // Petrie-Flom Center The Gazette spoke with Mason Marks, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School who leads the School’s Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Marks wrote about the potential for collision between state and federal laws in a December…