42-year-old man, Italy Found dead after using Kambo. The frog secretion peptide deltorphin A was detected in his blood. Natasha Lechner, 39, Australia, 2019 Died shortly after a Kambo ceremony. Medical experts concluded an acute coronary event was the likely cause. Jarrad Antonovich, 46, Australia, 2021 Died after
Welcome to The Psychedelic Blog. An independent media platform covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Why our definition of “sober” no longer makes sense…and what we should be asking instead. We’re all addicts. We just arbitrarily label some addictions destructive while ignoring, accepting
Synopsis: Archaeologists studying the teeth of ancient hunter-gatherers in Indonesia found evidence that people were sucking psychoactive Betel Nuts as far back as 25,000 years ago. The discovery predates agriculture & is now considered the earliest direct evidence of habitual human drug use. My Take: I’ve said
💰 Musk’s Inner Circle Is Betting Big on Psychedelics Synopsis: 2 longtime Elon Musk allies & SpaceX directors, Antonio Gracias & Steve Jurvetson, are putting millions behind efforts to move Psychedelics into mainstream medicine. Gracias’s family foundation reportedly invested $25 million to rescue the company formerly known as Lykos
Welcome to The Psychedelic Blog. An independent media platform covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: The 2nd edition of a monthly series featuring 7 questions about Psychedelics I can’t stop thinking about. 1. What if the Psychedelic Renaissance is happening in the wrong places?
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I sat down with Norman Ohler, bestselling author of Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany and Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age, to explore a question that runs quietly through his work: the role of psychoactive substances throughout human history. Our discussion moved across time
💗 MDMA May Work Without the Mystical Experience Synopsis: A new analysis of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD found that mystical experiences themselves did not significantly explain improvements in PTSD symptoms. Instead, the strongest link was positive emotional states: feelings of joy, peace & love. My Take: This is important because
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: What happens when Psychedelics change the way you see the person you love. I wrote something about relationships that unexpectedly took off: The note wasn’t really about Greece, sharks, or
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This Week: The quiet truth most people in Psychedelic spaces won’t say out loud: not everything has to heal, not everything has to be sacred, not everything has to justify itself. Sometimes
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Psychedelics don’t end status games…they just make them harder to see. In The Status Game, Will Storr argues that humans inevitably play status games…almost always unconsciously. The forms
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Why the fight to keep alcohol at the center of culture has already lost. Tomorrow will be 8 years since I quit alcohol. Around this time each year, I think about
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Injectable MDMA with injectable ketamine. Iboga, Bufo & mushrooms in the same weekend. Past-life certainty. At what point does exploration become escalation? A Few Recent Things Made Me Ask The
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Why Psychedelic culture recreated the very hierarchies it claims to oppose. Psychedelic culture likes to think of itself as anti-system, anti-hierarchy & anti-status games. Spend enough time around
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: 6 rules I wish someone had given me before I started exploring Psychedelics. Every week I get some version of the same question: “Where should I start with Psychedelics?” It’s
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: why what feels “normal” is just the result of constant inputs. Inspired by a recent piece from Aella on how cultural inputs shape expectation. Defaultland In Defaultland, people regulate being alive:
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: A Tour Through the Psychedelic Graveyard. No, Ayahuasca isn’t calling you. It’s one of hundreds of psychoactive plants humans have used throughout history. The reason you’ve heard of
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: What if Psychedelics aren’t trying to heal us at all…but reshape what we pay attention to? What If We’ve Been Asking the Wrong Question? I’ll never forget