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Indigenous Arizona Church Permitted To Use Ayahuasca After DEA Settlement

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Unfortunately, the implementation of the United States and the subsequent anti-drug laws that followed made it challenging for many tribes to practice this heritage. Also, this is the first time in history a church’s right to import and share its sacrament has been secured without going to trial.

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DEA Faces Lawsuit For Denying End of Life Patients the Right to Try Psychedelics Therapy

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Plant medicines and concoctions made from them have been utilized throughout the history of cultures around the world. In the last 100 years, many of the plant therapies that were embraced in history were outlawed by governments around the world and replaced by lab-made synthetic drugs we label medicine. A Push by Patients.

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DMT Therapy: Coming to a Clinic Near You?

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So according to the DEA, its abuse potential is high and it has no medical use. Also, according to the DEA, “the history of human experience probably goes back several hundred years since DMT usage is associated with a number of religious practices and rituals.” California Psychedelic Law Update.

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New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics

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The state of the law on psychedelic substances is in flux. The use of psychedelic substances to treat mental illness and physical disorders is known as “psychedelic therapy.” Psychedelic therapy is not a fringe phenomenon. Some of the most promising substances, and the law applicable to each, are outlined below: Psilocybin.

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Q&A with Mason Marks on New Psychedelics Law and Regulation Initiative @ Harvard

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From their blog… Q&A with Mason Marks on New Psychedelics Law and Regulation Initiative. On June 30th, the Petrie-Flom Center announced the launch of a three-year research initiative , the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) , which is supported by a generous grant from the Saisei Foundation.

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Harvard Law Review: Patents on Psychedelics: The Next Legal Battlefront of Drug Development

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Patents on psychedelics raise unique concerns associated with their unusual qualities, history, and regulation. Moreover, because Indigenous communities pioneered many aspects of modern psychedelic therapies, their patenting by Western corporations may promote biopiracy, the exploitation of Indigenous knowledge without compensation.

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MAPS Is 36 Years Old – Doblin Provides Precis Timeline of the Organization

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as a non-profit organization to fulfill the need to broaden psychedelic research, therapy, and develop legal options for psychedelic medicine. In MAPS’ 36th year, we’ll learn if our second Phase 3 study of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD was successful. Later that year, Doblin sued the DEA for the first time. Rick Doblin, Ph.D.,