According to popular accounts, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) scheduling of LSD and other psychedelics in 1968 shut down promising research for decades.
“We’re framing today as a relatively simple debate — perhaps an overly simple one,” began I. Glenn Cohen, Deputy Dean and Professor at Harvard Law School and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center, as he…
In Argentina, austerity threatens hard-won progress in mental health. In Córdoba, the 12th March for the Right to Mental Health filled the streets with color and conviction — reminding us that mental health is built…
Academics and enthusiasts alike often consider the 1960s a “psychedelics golden age” of access, research, and culture.
The legal category of “religion,” rooted in a Euro-Christian episteme, has outlived its usefulness as a universal category.
On Nov. 11, 2024, Bridger Lee Jensen stepped out of his church, Singularism, and was surrounded by police. They detained him, searched the church, and seized an alleged 450 grams of dried psilocybin mushroom.
Sixty-three percent of Americans identify as Christian. A primary responsibility for the established Christian church is to offer ethical guidance to church members, all of whom live in a society with particular state and federal laws.
Alongside the last two decades of growth in the field of psychedelic medicine, the use of psychedelics in religious and spiritual contexts has increased, not only in novel psychedelic spiritual communities (i.e., psychedelic churches) and…
The case for a new international human rights treaty for older persons is clear. In much of the world, older persons represent ever-larger shares of the population. The World Health Organization estimates the number of people aged over…
One of the biggest challenges in psychedelic regulation is reconciling competing ideas of what psychedelics are and why people use them. These definitions shape not only our cultural narratives but concrete policy choices.
