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Press Release: Launch of the Psychedelic Access and Research European Alliance – PAREA

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There are multiple clinical centers doing research with psychedelics in Europe and, inevitably, regulatory approvals in Europe will follow. We will be joined by excellent speakers including Dr. Thomas Insel – Former Director of the US National Institute of Mental Health (2002 – 2015), Prof. David Nutt and Prof.

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Best strains and terpenes for creativity

The Cannigma

More than half of cannabis users report the plant increases their creativity. They say cannabis can lower inhibition and self-judgment while allowing you to connect with yourself and a new way of looking at things. Whether or not cannabis impacts creativity is a challenging thing to measure. How cannabis can boost creativity.

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Best strains and terpenes for focus and flow state

The Cannigma

As with all things in cannabis, it depends. There is certainly some evidence that cannabis may be helpful with increasing focus, in the right dose with the right terpenes and cannabinoids. Cannabis may also be able to help you reach a flow state, where ideas and focus are effortless. How cannabis can help with focus.

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New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics

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Then, in November 2019, the FDA granted the designation to the nonprofit Usona Institute to study psilocybin’s effect on major depressive order, for which clinical trials are currently under way. See Usona Institute, A Study of Psilocybin for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) , Clinical Trial ID NCT03866174, available at [link].

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The history and science of psychedelics: from acid and shrooms to ketamine and salvia

The Cannigma

Just as THCA in cannabis flower needs to be decarboxylated into the active compound THC, psilocybin is not active until it undergoes a chemical reaction. Clinical research: Research is focusing on 5-MeO-DMT use in depression and anxiety. However, like cannabis , the root of this shrub produces many bioactive molecules.

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First ethics at MAPS in question and now Australia’s Mind Medicine look to have some serious integrity issues too

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Reporter Elise Worthington also investigates the dark side of this form of therapy where disturbing cases of abuse and malpractice are emerging in both clinical trials and the underground. Admiral Chris Barrie commanded all arms of the Defence Force as its Chief (CDF) from 1998 till 2002. Here’s the precis to the show.

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Why we haven’t cured cancer

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Cannabis offers hope to arthritis sufferers (news – 2009). Cannabis offers hope to arthritis sufferers | Daily Mail (London, England), The Newspaper | Find Articles at BNET. International Association for Cannabis as Medicine. International Association for Cannabis as Medicine. full – 2009). full – 2007).