Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith, CSWR, Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology This essay provides an introduction for the CSWR’s new publication, the Psychedelic Intersections Conference Anthology. Co-editors Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith set the ground for the the volume, approaching psychedelics intersectionally and with interdisciplinarity. They introduce the themes of the volumes essays: psychedelics and…
Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology
Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith, CSWR, Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology The Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology presents interdisciplinary research from scholars and practitioners working at the crossroads of psychedelics, religion, medicine, race, Indigeneity, law, and the underground, history, anthropology, and beyond. Edited by Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith, the Anthology expands on research presented…
Fragile Gains, Persistent Setbacks: The Muddled Arc of American Drug-Law Reform
Ifetayo Harvey, The Yale Law Journal Forum Petrie-Flom Center Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience (PULSE) Affiliated Researcher Ifetayo Harvey analyzes the legal, social, and political dimensions of drug decriminalization in the context of current debates….
Separation of Drug Scheduling Powers
Mason Marks, Yale Law Journal Forum Petrie-Flom Center Senior Fellow Mason Marks writes how drug scheduling places substances believed to be harmful and addictive under strict federal control. In 1970, Congress enacted the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), which split drug scheduling authority between executive departments to leverage their specialized expertise. Today, the CSA grants the…
Psychedelic Medicine Exceptionalism
I. Glenn Cohen and Mason Marks, The American Journal of Bioethics Research on psychedelic medicines is experiencing a revival. Some clinicians, scientists, and ethicists believe that psychedelics are so different from other treatments that they warrant special consideration in how they are researched, regulated, commercialized, and administered. Others argue that psychedelic medicines show clinical potential,…
Focused Bodywork as Facilitated Communication: Cautionary Perspectives on Touch in Psychedelic Therapy
Neşe Devenot, The American Journal of Bioethics Project on Psychedelic Law and Regulation (POPLAR) affiliated researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center highlights ethical concerns about the practice of “focused bodywork” that was utilized in MDMA-assisted therapy clinical trials….
Psychedelics, Psychosocial Support, and Psychotherapy: Why It Matters for the Law, Ethics, and Business of Medical Psychedelic Use
I. Glenn Cohen, Fordham Law Review This Essay, Part of a Symposium on Drug Law for the 21st Century, proceeds as follow. Part I briefly describes how vociferous this debate has become among advocates for the medical use of psychedelics. Part II discusses why this choice matters, legally and ethically. This includes a discussion of…
Time to Abolish the DEA: Evaluating the Agency’s Failures and Calling for Community Investments
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…
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…