This harm-reduction series will be sharing tips on how to have safe trips. Covering subjects such as psychedelic therapy, and psychedelic retreats, the importance of testing your compounds, set and setting, and the importance of having a plan and using a trip sitter. In this chapter, we will be focusing on the importance of testing your substances and when to use each reagent, what is set and setting and their importance, the importance of tripsitters (buddy-system), and how to create a safety plan when using psychedelics.

This harm-reduction series will be sharing tips on how to have safe trips. Covering subjects such as psychedelic therapy, and psychedelic retreats, the importance of testing your compounds, set and setting, and the importance of having a plan and using a trip sitter. In this chapter, we will be covering the misconception of psychedelics alone being able to heal mental illnesses, and the processes behind psychedelic therapy, including what is integration, types of integration, and how to be safe in international retreats.

Extremium and Niton aren't part of our scientific vocabulary today, however, they once were. In this article, we delve into the creation of new elements, who is the identity responsible for their nomenclature, and Victor Ninov the man who tried to fool the world by faking an element.

From Daquince's use of opium to the modern era, many stories of opioid users have been lost. For that reason, we cover the stories of two opioid- users Benzzzy and Calvin, from what led them to their addiction, their difficulties during this period, their advice for people who might be going through addiction, and their current status. In addition, we discuss the pharmacology student Anthony Furrule (@science_and_anonymous) about opioid prescription, opioid alternatives, the use of Ibogaine or its analogs for the treatment of addiction, and Narcan-resistant Fentanyl.

Foraging Mushrooms might be complicated. Often people are scared to understand what or not to pick. To make this task easy, we spoke to amateur mycologist Zachary Dennis to provide you with the best tips and tricks.

Aspirin, Digoxin, and Morphine aren't the first thing that comes to our minds once we hear the word Plant Medicine. Regardless of their seemingly distant origin, all those compounds once had a plant origin. To this, we name ethnopharmacology. Using the word of Juerg Gertsch: "Ethnopharmacology tries to understand the pharmacological basis of culturally important plants." Today, ethnopharmacology has an equally important role, as we are using plants that have been used for centuries by natives. Plants such as Peyote, Ayahuasca, Iboga, Kava Kava, and Psilocybe aid us with the current mental illness epidemic. Thus, Indigenous communities are once again furnishing us and aiding us with their ancient knowledge, this being said it would only be unfair not to feature such communities in Psychedelic and Ethnobotanical conferences, giving them their due credit, and teaching us about how much these plants mean to their culture, and most importantly how we should respect and protect indigenous rights.

The new internet-breaking tryptamine Psilomethoxin has generated various discussions on threads. Following breadcrumbs left by Alexander Shulgin, the owners of the Psilomethoxin church claimed to have successfully made the compound and report several experiences using it. However, the discussion continues, from being a 4-hydroxylated orally active form of 5-MeO-DMT to a potential neurotoxin for its similarities to 4,5-dihydroxytryptamine it's yet incognito whether the compound could have any neurotoxicity.

In a conversation with the pharmacy student Iara Martinez, we delve into her interest and experiences in the world of psychedelics, how these compounds aided her in mental illness, as well as the steps to becoming a psychedelic therapist.

Phallic shapes are all over the psychedelic world. From as the Penis-Envy strain to the Penis cactus, in this article we learn more about the origins of this species and how this rare cactus has seduced the community over the years.

Despite being fairly misunderstood, John C.Lilly has contributed to science, metaphysics, neuroscience, and the realms of consciousness. This year as a mark the 21st year after his death we deep dive into Lilly's work on dolphins, ketamine, and the province of the mind.

In a conversation with the research chemist and student Anthony Furrule (science_and_anonymous), we discuss the importance of education during the Psychedelic Renaissance, harm reduction, and the difficulties of being a social media scientific educator.

In the loving memory of the Shulgins the article Living and Loving through chemistry will teach you about Sasha's course to find 234 psychedelics alongside his wife Ann and learn how you can have a voice against DEA attempts to make substances illegal.

Nitrous Oxide or Dephlogisticated nitrous air named by its discoverer Joseph Priestley has always been a promising anesthetic and a possible treatment for depression until today, unfortunately, the gas has become a worry in the UK due to its misuse.

Radioactivity has been indulged as something inherently bad majorly after the explosions in the Chornobyl plants. Despite its dangers radioactivity has brought an evolution in the scientific realm as well as allowed the creation of DOI, DOB and 2C-I.

Since the introduction of the Psilocybe genus to the western community, various genetic engineering experiences were made birthing various strains, among them the WillSolvem Peyote Strain. Recent revolutionary research conducted by the Usona Institute unveiled for the first time the true crystal structure of psilocybin opening doors for new psilocybin analogs, such as CYB003, believed to hold the potential to treat major depressive disorder (MDD) and alcohol disorder. This analog is designed to have less variability in the plasma levels, a faster onset of action, shorter duration, and potentially be more tolerable versus oral psilocybin. Along with the mycological and chemical discoveries, how the substance acts in the brain and its potential use for the treatment of clinical depression is also being explored together with the hypothesis of psilocybe altering the gut microbiome, thus creating a potential avenue for new pharmaceutical tools targeting the gut-brain axis.