Canada Plays a Significant Role in the Research of Natural Psychedelic Plant Medicine. The study of plant medicine and psychedelic plants gets a back seat when it comes to legal research and clinical trials. This is compared to the ease and simplicity of focusing on a psychedelic molecule, plant derivative, or a plant-based proprietary medicine, […]
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WHAT A SOLO TRIP TO PERU TAUGHT ME ABOUT MASCULINE CONNECTION In October of 2019, I, a spiritually curious psychonaut, traveled alone to the Andean mountains of Peru to drink a potent psychedelic plant medicine known as Ayahuasca. During the course of my travels, I encountered a series of profoundly moving spiritual and emotionally healing
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By Sandra Nomoto Cactus: The Precious, Parched Plant Known as desert plants that grow in dry, sandy, and rocky soil, one-third of cactus (cactaceae) species and their desert ecosystems are threatened by climate change. Cacti are now considered more endangered than birds and mammals. In addition to hot U.S. states and Mexico, cacti also grow
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THE MYCELIUM NETWORK IS CALLING US TO CONNECT ONLINE. March 26th, 2020 is Fantastic Fungi Day. It was meant to be a day of Fantastic Fungi screenings to bring the fungi kingdom and all of its inspiration and beauty above ground for a one-of-a-kind immersive, consciousness-shifting experience, to interconnect global communities as we mirror the
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The opiate crisis gripping North America is a complex issue that effects many social and socio-economic matters, such as homelessness, healthcare, crime, housing, unemployment and welfare. The current solutions, such as harm reduction and methadone, though better than nothing, are not fully effective or sustainable. Some people turn to extreme measures to try and circumvent
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Between bouts of crying, and with friends holding him on either side, Paul* choked down the capsules for his third and final trip, two at a time. “At first I spit them out.” The fear of subjecting himself again to sheer terror was too much. “Getting myself to take those pills that day was, without
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By Simon Gerard Thanks to a few friends, I found out about a dinner fundraiser in Vancouver to support mental health research. Around 50 people came together to hear medical doctors, addiction specialists, and advocates speak, and connect with like-minded people from Vancouver, the United States, and abroad. Unlike most mental health fundraisers, this one
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As we stare into the face of a sixth mass extinction, plant teachers and the ancestral knowledge systems that surround them are helping humanity to wake up and remember what it truly means to be human and choose the path of regeneration, of hope, and to be the ancestors our great-grandchildren need us to be.
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Scientific evidence about Ayahuasca has the potential to change health care, policy, and lead to an increased appreciation of indigenous Amazonian medicine practices. The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service Foundation (ICEERS) has new findings on ayahuasca and grief that were just published, and other papers on the way. They need help to share these with
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The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in Canada, along with Quantified Citizen, a mobile health research platform, are launching the world’s first mobile study on the effects of microdosing psychedelic substances on cognitive performance and mental health. They are seeking both microdosers and non-microdosers who are over the age of majority, fluent in English,
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