Articles
8,166 Articles
DoubleBlind Mag
/
Oct 06, 2025
Scientists Aren’t Sure If Psychedelics Make Us More Creative
Scientists Aren't Sure If Psychedelics Make Us More Creative PLUS what happened when we lab tested "mushroom" products and how the Sonoran Desert toad became a leading fixture of modern psychedelia. Mary Carreón // Editor-in-Chief 06 Oct POWERED BY: Happy Monday! Welcome to another...
DMT
MDMA
Psychedelics
Psilocybin Alpha
/
Oct 06, 2025
The Psychedelic News Feed: Sept 29 – Oct 5, 2025
This is an archived version of our Psychedelic News Feed. Explore the live Feed and receive a weekly digest to your inbox by joining our free newsletter: Learn more about and subscribe to our Pα+ program to receive lots, lots more. ∎ If you’re a… Source
Psychedelics Today
/
Oct 06, 2025
Ivar Goksøyr — Wounded Healers, Inner Intelligence & Bringing MDMA Training to Mainstream Care
Recorded October 1 In this candid, practice-focused conversation, Joe is joined by Norwegian psychologist and researcher Ivar Goksøyr to explore how therapists’ own healing journeys can measurably improve client outcomes—and why MDMA-assisted experiences, used thoughtfully, may be a uniquely...
MDMA
Psychedelics Today
/
Oct 06, 2025
MDMA-Assisted Therapy for the Wounded Healer: Help fund a pioneering study!
Start with the patterns many wounded healers know well: Parentified at home, helpers at work; old burdens resurface. We overfunction, detach, control, or rescue to manage our insecurities and the weight of responsibility. Beneath it sits guilt and shame of not reaching our patients in the ways we...
Psychedelics Today
/
Oct 06, 2025
MDMA-Assisted Therapy & The Wounded Healer: Training for Mental Health Professionals
Warmly welcome to this clinically stimulating, two‑part workshop: Embark on a self‑reflective journey through richly immersive clinical material: a detailed, video‑based case analysis of a wounded healer’s own MDMA therapy. This rare, unfiltered entry into the therapy room...
MDMA
Psilocybin Alpha
/
Oct 03, 2025
Pα+ Psychedelic Bulletin #210: Compass Exec Defends Minimal Support Model in Stockholm; IV Ketamine Outperforms Esketamine Nasal Spray in Retrospective Study; Reunion Advances RE104 in Adjustment Disorder; Mindstate Wraps Phase I
I (Josh Hardman, the Editor) had a wonderful time in Stockholm last week for the Borealis Psychedelic Science Summit. While there was a great diversity of talks and discussions, for our purposes, I decided to focus this dispatch on two sessions: *** In a keynote titled “Can We Re-Medicalise the...
Ketamine
Lucid News
/
Oct 03, 2025
MAPS Moves Forward With New Leadership Model
In a decision that brings a new model of leadership to an organization that has pioneered psychedelic-assisted therapy and policy reform, the board of directors of the nonprofit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has named Betty Aldworth and Ismail Lourido Ali as...
Psychedelics Today
/
Oct 03, 2025
Kyle Buller & Joe Moore — Breathwork, Community, Creativity, and Fresh Psychedelic Research
Joe and Kyle debrief a hometown Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork weekend in Breckenridge, then sketch the next chapter for Psychedelics Today: a community-centric model (Navigators) that bundles education, live streams, book and film clubs, and small-group access. They kick around the big...
Psychedelics
DoubleBlind Mag
/
Oct 03, 2025
Rastafarian Village Is Under Pressure to Keep Its Oasis Alive
Rastafarian Village Is Under Pressure to Keep Its Oasis Alive A Rastafarian community is fighting to protect its forest and culture as a massive road project threatens its future. Peter Holslin 03 Oct Deep dives and investigations you won't find anywhere else Photo by Carey Bradshaw A...
DoubleBlind Mag
/
Oct 01, 2025
Your Cat Ate Shrooms. Now What?!
Your Cat Ate Shrooms. Now What?! We talked to a vet about what to do when your purr baby gets into your mushroom stash. Suzannah Weiss 01 Oct SUPPORTING PARTNER Your weekly dose of psychedelic insights and news So… Your Cat Ate Mushrooms. We asked veterinarians what to do when your...
Psychedelics Today
/
Sep 30, 2025
Mary Carreón — Censorship, Psychedelic Media & Policy Crosscurrents
Joe and Mary dive into how platform censorship and shifting algorithms have reshaped psychedelic media, why DoubleBlind moved to a “newsletter-first” model, and what that’s revealed about true audience engagement. They reflect on the post-2024 MDMA decision headwinds, state-level policy moves...
MDMA
Lucid News
/
Sep 30, 2025
Legislators Revive Policy Reform in Massachusetts
A rare confluence of legislative action on Beacon Hill has sparked a resurgence of psychedelic policy reform efforts in Massachusetts since the defeat of 2024’s Question 4 therapeutic and decriminalization legislation. Lawmakers have now introduced a dozen bills at the Massachusetts State House,...
Psilocybin
Ibogaine
Psilocybin Alpha
/
Sep 29, 2025
The Psychedelic News Feed: September 22 – 28, 2025
This is an archived version of our Psychedelic News Feed. Explore the live Feed and receive a weekly digest to your inbox by joining our free newsletter: Learn more about and subscribe to our Pα+ program to receive lots, lots more. Source
Psychedelics Today
/
Sep 26, 2025
Joe & Kyle Catch-Up: Vital Cohort 4, Breathwork, Community & a Psychedelic News Roundup
PODCAST INSERT Joe and Kyle celebrate Vital Cohort 4 and reflect on why Vital is more than a 12-month psychedelic-informed training—it’s a living community (alumni webinars, discussion groups, cross-cohort meetups). Many grads aren’t rushing to facilitate; they’re choosing integration, harm...
DoubleBlind Mag
/
Sep 26, 2025
Who Will Own the Future of Psychedelics?
Who Will Own the Future of Psychedelics? It’s time to decide whether the future of psychedelics will be guided by a shared community vision or swallowed up by corporate takeover. Patrick Maravelias 26 Sep Deep dives and investigations you won't find anywhere else Please Trip...
LSD
Psychedelics Today
/
Sep 25, 2025
Greg Shanken — Collaborence, Community Access & Ethical Growth in Psychedelics
Joe Moore sits down with Greg Shanken (Colorado Psychedelic Society, Collaborence Psychedelic Business Association; founder, Higher Frequency Network) for a wide-ranging conversation about building community infrastructure, navigating censorship, and creating accessible, ethical pathways into...
Psychedelics
DoubleBlind Mag
/
Sep 24, 2025
MDMA Saves Lives and Marriages
MDMA Saves Lives and Marriages A glimpse inside the night that brought author Seth Lorinczi and his wife back to each other. Seth Lorinczi 24 Sep Your weekly dose of psychedelic insights and news The Night MDMA Saved My Life When our therapist suggested MDMA, I was taken aback: We...
MDMA
Cannabis
Psilocybin Alpha
/
Sep 24, 2025
Pα+ Psychedelic Bulletin #209: Aussie Insurer Covers Psilocybin for TRD; atai Scores $11.4M NIDA Grant; First Look at Real-World Outcomes from Oregon Psilocybin Clients; Pipeline Updates
We forgo our introductory remarks today, as it’s been a busy couple of weeks since we published our last Bulletin, so there is plenty to dive into in this Issue… *** Last week, atai Life Sciences announced that it has been awarded a UG3/UGH grant[1] from the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse...
Psilocybin
Psychedelics Today
/
Sep 23, 2025
Dr. Cat Meyer – Sex, Love, Psychedelics
In this episode of Psychedelics Today, Joe Moore sits down with Dr. Cat Meyer, licensed psychotherapist, sex therapist, and host of Sex, Love, Psychedelics. Together, they explore the deep intersections of sexuality, trauma healing, psychedelics, and the role of play in human connection. Dr. Meyer...
Psychedelics
Microdose
/
Sep 23, 2025
Psylutions and the DEA
In August 2025, the psychedelics movement crossed an unprecedented threshold. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced that it would forward a petition to reschedule psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in “magic mushrooms”, to the Department of Health and Human Services...
Psilocybin Alpha
/
Sep 22, 2025
Breakthrough Data, Black Box Sessions: A Closer Look at MindMed’s Phase 2b LSD for GAD Study
Earlier this month, MindMed’s Phase 2b study of its lysergide D-tartrate candidate (dubbed MM120, which we also refer to simply as ‘LSD’ here) in adults with moderate to severe generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) was published in JAMA (Robison et al., 2025). The study saw 198 patients receive a...
LSD
Psilocybin Alpha
/
Sep 19, 2025
UK Royal College of Psychiatrists Weighs In: Promise in Psychedelics, But Hype Mustn’t Outpace Evidence
This morning, the UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists published a Position Statement on psychedelic and related substances (which it calls PARS) for medical use. Here, we briefly unpack the statement, as well as related guidance it published for psychiatrists working on studies of psychedelics. In...
DoubleBlind Mag
/
Sep 19, 2025
Psychedelic OG’s Journey From Owsley Acid to a Vision of Vishnu
Psychedelic OG’s Journey From Owsley Acid to a Vision of Vishnu Once a teen ferrying LSD, Gwyllm Llwydd now layers decades of altered states into surreal art and myth. Gregory Daurer 19 Sep Deep dives and investigations you won't find anywhere else Living a Life of Color with...
LSD
DMT
Lucid News
/
Sep 19, 2025
Rewilding the Imagination: Psychedelic Art, Ecological Medicine, and the Practice of Peace
In a world teetering between collapse and awakening, the most revolutionary act is to reimagine. To create. To remember. As a multi-modal digital artist working with the language of dreams, myth, memory, and media, I believe that art infused with psychedelic insight and ecological reverence is also...
Psychedelics
Lucid News
/
Sep 18, 2025
Michigan Psychedelic Community Celebrates Entheogens and Activism
The Per Ankh House of Life is situated on a quiet street a few blocks from Woodward Avenue in Detroit, MI. Outside, it looks normal and unassuming, but once inside, the energy is bursting from the walls. The inside is colorful with murals of entheogenic art painted in purples, reds, oranges, blues,...
Cannabis
Psychedelics
DoubleBlind Mag
/
Sep 17, 2025
How AA and Plant Medicine Guided Me Through My Battle with Cancer
How AA and Plant Medicine Guided Me Through My Battle with Cancer A reflection on sobriety, ayahuasca, and battling cancer out of the body. Tim F. 17 Sep SUPPORTING PARTNER Your weekly dose of psychedelic insights and news How AA and Plant Medicine Carried Me Through Addiction and...
Ayahuasca
Psychedelics
Psychedelics Today
/
Sep 16, 2025
Dee Dee Goldpaugh – Embracing Pleasure
Joe Moore interviews Dee Dee Goldpaugh, LCSW about their new book Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality. The discussion covers the book’s reception, critiques of over-medicalization, personal healing experiences, definitions of erotic energy and pleasure, historical repression...
Psychedelics
Psilocybin Alpha
/
Sep 16, 2025
Q3’25 Psychedelic Drug Development Pipeline: Bullseye Charts
Q3 2025 BULLSEYE CHARTS Access a high-resolution PDF of the bullseye charts by entering your email. By doing so, you are also opting in to our free newsletter. Source
Microdose
/
Sep 16, 2025
With big pharma circling psychedelics, the next breakthrough may not come from tripping at all
When AbbVie moved to acquire Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals in a deal valued at more than $1 billion, it sent shockwaves through the biotech community. For years, psychedelic-inspired drug development has been viewed as a fringe pursuit, scientifically intriguing, but clinically and commercially fraught....
Psilocybin
LSD
DoubleBlind Mag
/
Sep 15, 2025
Was the Life-Extending Psilocybin Study All Hype?
Was the Life-Extending Psilocybin Study All Hype? One academic says yes. PLUS an interview with an Onanya, AI generated DMT visuals, and psilocybin's impact on shame. Mary Carreon 15 Sep POWERED BY: Happy Monday! Welcome to another edition of The Drop In, DoubleBlind’s newsletter...
Psilocybin
LSD
DMT
Ayahuasca
DoubleBlind Mag
/
Sep 12, 2025
What Happens When You Mix MDMA and Viagra?
What Happens When You Mix MDMA and Viagra? The short answer: yes…but with a few caveats. Joe Dolce 12 Sep Deep dives and investigations you won't find anywhere else Is It Safe to Use MDMA and Viagra at the Same Time? The short answer is yes, but like all things drug-related, it...
MDMA
Microdose
/
Sep 12, 2025
Bridging Psychedelics, Psychiatry, and Spirituality for Global Healing
As psychedelic medicine continues its rapid reentry into mainstream science, few voices have managed to bridge the worlds of psychiatry, spirituality, and policy as seamlessly as Dr. Anna Yusim. With training at Stanford and Yale, and more than 5000 clients served across 70 countries, Dr. Yusim has...
Psilocybin Alpha
/
Sep 11, 2025
‘No Prejudice, No Hype’: Florence Butlen-Ducuing on Europe’s Psychedelic Renaissance
From a long stint at the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Office of Therapies for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders to her present-day practice as a clinical psychiatrist at leading cancer research hospital Gustave Roussy, Dr. Florence Butlen-Ducuing has had a front-row seat to the evolution...
DoubleBlind Mag
/
Sep 10, 2025
Everything to Know About the New Potent Psilocybin Mushroom
Everything to Know About the New Potent Psilocybin Mushroom Discovered in 2023, Psilocybe ingeli grows fast, packs serious potency, and could be a game-changer for cultivators…and consumers. Sam Gandy 10 Sep Your weekly dose of psychedelic insights and news An Enthusiast’s Guide to...
Psilocybin
MAPS
/
Sep 09, 2025
MAPS Board of Directors Names Betty Aldworth and Ismail Lourido Ali as Co-Executive Directors
Betty Aldworth and Ismail Lourido Ali bring decades of combined experience in drug policy leadership, psychedelic advocacy, and movement buildingAs Co-Executive Directors, Aldworth and Ali reflect MAPS’ legacy commitment to serving and strengthening the movement for legal, equitable access to...
Microdose
/
Sep 09, 2025
Global Psychedelic Week Announces In-Person Events
The inaugural Global Psychedelic Week is set to take place November 3-9, 2025 with both virtual and in-person programming throughout the weeklong conference. The main sessions will be taking place online and feature participants from 100 countries and globally renowned experts covering subject areas...