Harvard Law Today // Petrie-Flom Center At a Petrie-Flom book talk, panelists discuss the lost history of constitutional challenges to punitive drug laws and possible ways forward…
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…
Momentum is Not Enough: A Call for Consistency in Psychedelic Legislation
Bill of Health // Petrie-Flom Center By Karina Bashir….
People Are Trying Magic Mushrooms for Depression — and Accidentally Meeting God
Rolling Stone // Center for the Study of World Religions The medicalization movement is faltering. Maybe that’s because psychedelics have been spiritual tools all along. By Cassady Rosenblum, featuring Jeffrey Breau….
FDA rejects ecstasy as a therapy: what’s next for psychedelics?
Nature // Petrie-Flom Center Following the US drug agency’s decision, Nature examines the outlook for other hallucinogens that are in clinical trials as psychiatric treatments. By Sara Reardon, featuring I. Glenn Cohen and Mason Marks….
FDA rejected MDMA-assisted PTSD therapy. Other psychedelics firms intend to avoid that fate
Science // Petrie-Flom Center Lykos Therapeutics’s failure to win approval may trigger a strategic shift in psychedelic medicine. By Kai Kupferschmidt, featuring I. Glenn Cohen….
Getting to ‘Plan B’ for psychedelic medicine: Lessons from reproductive health
STAT // Petrie-Flom Center The Food and Drug Administration’s decision not to approve Lykos Therapeutics’ application for MDMA (a psychedelic drug known on the street as ecstasy or molly) plus therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder comes as no surprise, given an advisory panel’s “no” vote on the application in June. But if lessons from reproductive…
Psychedelics for Healing
Harvard Magazine // Petrie-Flom Center Harvard’s I. Glenn Cohen on the use of “magic mushrooms” and other psychedelics in medicine, by Olivia Farrar….
Mushroom edibles are rising in popularity. It’s hard to say what’s in them.
NBC News // Petrie-Flom Center A booming unregulated market is creating risks for consumers, who may not know what they’re getting. By Akshay Syal, featuring Mason Marks….
From the Eleusinian Mysteries to Modern Mysticism: The Role of Religion in the Psychedelic Experience
Psychedelics Today // Center for the Study of World Religions In this episode of the Psychedelics Today Podcast, Joe Moore interviews Charles Stang, Professor of Early Christian Thought and the Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions….