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Humans Have Been Using Drugs for at Least 25,000 Years (opens the original)
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Welcome to The Psychedelic Blog. An independent media platform covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them.This week: Ancient teeth, psychoactive betel nuts & the 25,000-year fantasy of a drug-free society.Archaeologists studying the teeth of ancient hunter-gatherers in Indonesia found evidence that they habitually sucked psychoactive betel nuts. The discovery predates agriculture & is now cons
Global Altered States: Sayulita (opens the original)
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This week’s Sunday Insider: Sayulita’s beautiful, temporary counterculture & the Mexico I wish I’d discovered at 23. Read more
5 Psychedelic Stories You Should Know This Week (opens the original)
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Welcome to The Psychedelic Blog. An independent media platform covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them.This week: The FDA sketches a faster path, LSD clears another major trial, Psilocybin shows promise beyond mental health & researchers ask how you give someone a believable fake trip. Plus, the darker side of the “God Molecule.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1505682634904-d7c8d95cdc50?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm
Kambo Is More Dangerous Than You Think (opens the original)
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This Week’s Sunday Insider: The risks of Kambo are well-documented…the benefits are not.42-year-old man, ItalyFound dead after using Kambo. The frog secretion peptide deltorphin A was detected in his blood.Natasha Lechner, 39, Australia, 2019Died shortly after a Kambo ceremony. Medical experts concluded an acute coronary event was the likely cause.Jarrad Antonovich, 46, Australia, 2021Died after taking Kambo at a festival. His esophagus ruptured following severe v
It’s Time to Redefine “Sober” (opens the original)
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Welcome to The Psychedelic Blog. An independent media platform covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them.This week: Why our definition of “sober” no longer makes sense…and what we should be asking instead.We’re all addicts. We just arbitrarily label some addictions destructive while ignoring, accepting or even celebrating others. That’s probably going to piss some people off, particularly those for whom sobriety has been genuinely lifesaving. And obviously, there’s a meaningf
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