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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.”

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MAPS Organization Granted $12.9 Million to Study Cannabis and PTSD •

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The grant comes from Michigan’s 2021 Veteran Marijuana Research Grant Program , and is funded by the state’s recreational cannabis taxes. MAPS Makes History. This trial will be the second of its kind to be conducted so far, and one that is an FDA- and DEA-regulated double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

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And Here We Go Again! NASDAQ Article: Forget Cannabis: Psychedelic Medicine Is the Better Investing Opportunity

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This landmark approval is unique in that ketamine is well known to have hallucinogenic properties, as well as a long history as a party drug. Any approved medicines will have to be rescheduled by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The IPOs of Canopy Growth and GW Pharmaceuticals illustrate this point nicely.

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Veriheal’s Innovation in Cannabis Scholarship 2020 Winners

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Program between St. About Sinibaldo: Sinibaldo is an aspiring healthcare professional and a biomedical researcher in the Medical Scientist Training Program (M.D./Ph.D.) About Nishtha: Nishtha is pursuing neurology to become a physician-scientist in honor of her grandmother Nani who suffered from Alzheimer’s.

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

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Things have changed a little in the past twenty years, when the DEA gave some researchers permission to study limited amounts of certain psychedelics. But they remain relatively small, in part because the DEA limits the amount of psilocybin and other psychedelics that can be produced each year. Who might be left behind?

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New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics

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Further, numerous private companies have begun to research psychedelic therapy and develop new pharmaceutical compounds derived from psychedelic substances. Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”). Briefing is still under way, with the DEA’s responsive brief submitted on June 25, 2021, and the petitioners’ reply due July 16, 2021.

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