PsychedelicsASL

I am a writer focused on the study of psychedelics and pharmacology. Writer of Lophophora as a second language.

Meet the origins of DOM (STP)

If you were born in the 1960s, you’ve likely heard about the compound DOM, but perhaps under a slightly different acronym, based on the oil and lubricant company STP and an abbreviation for Serenity, Tranquility, and Peace.

Despite its popularity during that decade, DOM holds one of the biggest mysteries among Shulgin’s creations.

Find out more about the mysteries of the origins of DOM and how the molecule became forgotten in a “pharmacological oblivion” here!

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JRT a new Lysergamide in the Horizon?

By altering the position of two atoms in the molecular structure of LSD, a team at UC Davis created the new compound named JRT and published the discovery on April 14th, five days before Bicycle Day.

The subtle change preserved the ability of the drug to stimulate brain cell growth and repair damaged neural connections, key features in treating cognitive decline while minimizing the psychedelic effects.

When given to mice, JRT has powerful neuroplastic effects and improved measures of the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia without showing behaviors and gene expression associated with psychosis.

“The development of JRT emphasizes that we can use psychedelics like LSD as starting points to make better medicines. We may be able to create medications that can be used in patient populations where psychedelic use is precluded.” – David Olson, director of the Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics and professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular medicine at UC Davis.

Find out more here!

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Meet the Fireside project App: Your virtual Peer Support Line

Psychedelic experiences are a trip into the unknown and sometimes get out of hand or become too much to decompress or at least on your own.

Fireside Project considered this and created the first app to help us during and after our trips, with over 100 volunteers to provide you with non-clinical emotional support, giving you a compassionate experience filled with knowledge about the psychedelic realms while always protecting your identity without collecting personal data.

The Fireside Project line is open every day from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. PT to everyone in the United States!

Most importantly, it’s free and one click away!

Read more here!

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Our field guide to enter the Psychedelic Space

During my journey of a decade, I’ve met a lot of people who knew about psychedelics, but only a smaller group of people dedicated their lives to educating themselves about these compounds.

When starting your journey, it’s hard to distinguish between the two as every piece of knowledge may seem like a golden nugget. (I assume nowadays it is even more confusing to differentiate the two with the rise of AI tools such as ChatGPT.) 

For this reason, we decided to present you with our field guide to let you know what you should do if you are trying to integrate into the psychedelic space.

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Importance of women in the psychedelic space: A conversation-with the co-founder of Women on Psychedelics, Jessika Lagarde

It’s Women’s History Month and Women’s day. Today, we celebrate by mentioning the eternal importance of women in the Psychedelic world. To do so, we spoke to Jessika Lagarde, a Trauma-informed Psychedelic Practitioner, Educator, and co-founder of Women on Psychedelics (WOOP). Join us in a conversation about adversities entering the space as a South American BIPOC woman. Her admiration and inspiration for other women in the field, the reasoning and the goals behind WOOP, how you support and become a part of this project. We discuss the F.E.M. approach the group uses in retreats to help people connect with themselves and others. How might Women’s unique experiences with trauma, mental health, and resilience shape their perspectives on the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and advice to women who want to make a difference in this field? What kind of legacy she hopes women in the psychedelic space leave for future generations and much more!

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Exploring The Infinity Container with Dr. Victoria Sterkin

Is psychedelic integration worth it?
To get to the depths of this discussion, we spoke to Victoria Sterkin, PhD, founder of the integration platform The Infinity Container .

We discuss the aims of the project, what frameworks provide the best healing, the importance of revisiting a psychedelic experience, the future of psychedelic therapy, and much more! 

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Never lost at raves again: An interview with Carter Fowler Co-Founder and CEO of TotemLabs

At Festivals and Raves, you can easily split from your group. Maybe you became overwhelmed or are having a bad trip. Finding your friends can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be!

This week, we interviewed Carter Fowler, Co-Founder and CEO of Totem, a device that acts as a Compass to help you find your friends at festivals and other crowded events without cell service or Wi-Fi and is 100% compatible with the rave style.

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Becoming a Mycopreneur with Dennis Walker

This week, we’ve spoken with the satirist, journalist, and puppeteer that you may have heard about from his podcast Mycopreneur, featuring hundreds of guests from the fungal world and beyond or even from his mesmerizing TikToks satirizing psychedelic capitalism. You may have also read his articles featured in Rolling Stone, Forbes, WIRED, VICE, and High Times. We are talking about Dennis Walker!

Join us for a discussion about how psychedelics influenced his life, the origins of his podcast, his passion for fungi, psychedelic capitalism, and mush more!

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Psychedelic Individualism, a shift on purpose

Recently, there was a shift in Entheogens.

A shift in our purpose.

Entheogens once used to unite the community and are now met with individualism. This shift is nothing but a representation of our society.

We are beginning to absolve the sense of community and become focused on ourselves. Losing communion, compassion, love, and respect for others.

This might be an inevitable step for the evolutionary step, the German band Kraftwerk named Mensch-Maschine (Man-Machine).

Yet, Entheogens can still be the turning point for us to become a community once again.

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Are Psychedelics causing wormholes in the brain?

In this article, we will be covering a groundbreaking concept, Neural Geometrodynamics, which could allow us to understand the brain and the effects of psychedelics better.

The theory aims to understand the brain’s complexities by transcending traditional views of neural function, proposing a dynamic interplay between the brain’s structure and operations, akin to the relationship between spacetime and matter in general relativity.

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