Ariel Clark: ‘Psychedelics Offer Answer to Global Crisis of Consciousness and Connectedness’
By Brad Dunn — Ariel Clark grew up in Michigan, with Odawa Anishinaabe lineage from her father’s side and French-American lineage from her mother’s. From a young age she was aware of her family’s struggles — with poverty, dislocation, addiction, cultural inequality — and she felt the only way to fix a broken system is from […]
Ethan Nadelmann to Keynote reMind’s Psychedelics Business Forum
By reMind Staff — Ethan Nadelmann, widely regarded as the one of the top proponents of drug policy reform both in the United States and abroad, will deliver the keynote address at reMind’s Psychedelics Business Forum at MJBizCon. Nadelmann’s address, “The New Psychedelics Era: Politics, Profits & Principles,” will kick off the one-day conference and […]
Emerald Announces the Launch of reMind: A New Business Resource for the Psychedelics Revolution
Dedicated to the advancement of breakthrough medicine and treatments in psychedelics, reMind will host its debut event — The Psychedelics Business Forum — at MJBizCon New York, NY (6 Oct 2022) – Emerald Holding, Inc. today introduced reMind, a new media and events platform committed to building, connecting and educating diverse communities to responsibly grow […]
Filament CEO: Natural Psilocybin Is the Logical Option, So Why Is the Industry Stuck on Synthetic?
By Brad Dunn — Benjamin Lightburn has built a career on the belief that compounds extracted naturally from plants and fungi are superior to those synthesized in a lab. He and many of his colleagues at the botanical-extraction company Mazza Innovation exited in 2018, only to reunite in 2020 to launch Filament Health, where they […]
‘Psychedelia’ Filmmaker: I Worry Today’s Psychedelic Drug Development Is Too Much, Too Fast
By Brad Dunn — In 2011, Pat Murphy was searching for a subject for his senior film project at New York University’s film school, when he overheard someone at a party talking about a new study at the NYU School of Medicine that was testing psilocybin to help cancer patients with end-of-life anxiety. The idea […]
How Two Brothers Turned a Family Tragedy into a Brain-Health Mission
By Brad Dunn Alzheimer’s disease — and the toll it took on both their father and grandfather — prompted Chris and Joe Claussen to make drastic career changes. Chris, a former commercial photographer, and Joe, a former charter-boat operator, spent years researching brain chemistry and experimenting with different diets and compounds to help their father. […]
Oregon Releases Draft Rules for Psilocybin Treatments
By Brad Dunn — The Oregon Health Authority has published a draft of its proposed rules related to psilocybin users, facilitators, treatment centers and manufacturers as part of Measure 109. The 65-page draft released Thursday sets parameters for dosages, facilitator interactions, licensing rules, and social equity guidelines that will shape the state’s nascent psilocybin industry. […]
DEA Abandons Move to Ban Psychedelic Compounds DOI and DOC
By reMind Staff — For the second time in as many months, the Drug Enforcement Agency has dropped a proposal to add more psychedelic compounds to its list of banned substances. On Friday, the DEA announced it was retreating from its effort to place the hallucinogens 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI) and 2,5-dimethoxy-4-chloroamphetamine (DOC) in Schedule I of […]
Psychedelics Usage Up, Especially Among Millennials and Gen Z
By reMind Staff — Young adults are spurring a significant rise in psychedelics usage in the United States, according to new data from two independent sources. When asked if they had used a hallucinogen in the last year — specifically LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, mescaline, or PCP — a record 8.1% of young Americans (aged 19-30) […]
Psychedelics-Based Church Sues Oakland Police Over Raid
By Brad Dunn — A religious group that believes psilocybin mushrooms played a central role in human evolution has sued the Oakland Police Department over a 2020 raid and seizure of its supply of the psychedelic “sacrament.” According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Zide Door Church of Entheogenic Plants says law enforcement violated its […]
