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LSD use is rising among older folks – and it’s probably because people are looking for a way out. Even if it’s way out.

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Scientific American analyzes the rise in LSD use and finds that it’s probably an attempt to lighten up – or at least get a new […]

The jury remains out on ketamine-based antidepressants. They work… for some people.

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Science News covers the ups and downs of Spravato, a ketamine-related antidepressant nasal spray that works for some folks, sometimes: Many existing antidepressants target serotonin, […]

In states where marijuana is legalized, underage use is dropping.

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CNN reports on a JAMA Pediatrics study that found an interesting correlation between decriminalizing cannabis and teenagers’ use of the plant. Recreational use among teens […]

Ancient stoners used wooden bowls. (Not the kind on pipes, either.)

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Science News traces the history of highs to a Chinese site where 2,500-year-old tombside remains indicate that smoldering cannabis was stacked in wooden bowls for […]

Anesthetic kills the pain … of traumatic memories.

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New Scientist reports on a novel possible treatment for PTSD – a common anesthetic that helps take the sting out of painful memories: Bryan Strange […]

Mushrooms could save the bees. Maybe.

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Wired shares the latest unexpected benefit from mushroom fundi Paul Stamets, who may have found a weapon to beat back CCD, the syndrome that’s devastating […]

Johns Hopkins researchers recommend taking magic mushrooms off Schedule I.

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The Johns Hopkins Hub shares the news that their medical school researchers are advocating, in the October issue of Neuropharmacology, that psilocybin mushrooms be taken […]

We’ve figured out why marijuana helps inflammation.

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Popular Science looks at Mary Jane, gut problems and the mechanism behind cannabis helping make IBS better: A new study from University of Massachusetts and […]

Genetically modifying cannabis… for science and for profit.

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Nature looks at a bold new frontier (and whole new money-making opportunities) opened by fiddling around with cannabis DNA: On 25 June, the FDA announced […]

SONG: Electronics Follow

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SONG: “Electronics Follow” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’,” The New York Times, 13 Nov 2017, as […]

Ketamine fights depression in mice – when a male researcher administers it.

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Nature dives into some pretty weird sex-based results in pharmacological studies of ketamine: The findings, presented on 14 November at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) […]

FDA OKs putting tracking devices in schizophrenia pills. (Yes. They really did.)

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New York Times has the latest high-water mark in our society’s ever-rising tide of irony – an antipsychotic medication that, as paranoid as this sounds, […]

Quickie-prescription startup wants to market stage-fright pills.

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Stat News has some weird news at the intersection of business and pharmacology – a new company wants to sell a beta-blocker used for blood […]

FDA labels Ecstasy a “breakthrough therapy,” accelerates testing.

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Science magazine celebrates the fast-tracking of studies on MDMA, the once-notorious rave drug that’s now on the verge of being approved to tread PTSD and […]

Your gut bacteria could neutralize your cancer medication.

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Nature looks at another way personalized treatments could save lives – by taking into account how different people’s gut bacteria affect drugs differently: Bacteria living […]