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Navigating Cannabis Use in Legal and Illegal Contexts Across Continents: An Interview
Cannabis use in Nigeria and worldwide is a complex and multifaceted issue. Referred to as igbo*, ganja, weed, marijuana, and several...
Ejura Yetunde Salihu
May 24, 20238 min read


From the Streets to the Kitchen: The Changing Face of Cannabis in the Media
Figure 1: An ad for a film titled “Marihuana.” (National Library of Medicine) The representation of cannabis (also known as marijuana,...
Ejura Yetunde Salihu
May 4, 20234 min read


A Snapshot of Drug Advertising Laws in the USA: Impact on Consumer Protection and Health
Traditional drug advertisements involve drug ads and promotional material targeted at healthcare professionals to increase clinician...
Ejura Yetunde Salihu
Feb 7, 20236 min read


Who Can Afford a Baby? An Intersection of Gender, Race, and Class Oppression in Fertility Treatment
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes infertility as an inability to achieve a viable pregnancy within one year of regular and...
Ejura Yetunde Salihu
Jan 31, 20234 min read


A brief review of psychedelics’ biological and psychological mechanisms
...of action attributed to their therapeutic effects. In Spanish there is a saying that goes “Lo prometido es deuda”, which translates as...
Anny Ortiz
Jan 24, 20238 min read


Discussions on Enacting Transdisciplinarity in Psychedelic Studies
In my first post for this six-part series of commentaries, I reflected on the start of the “Psychedelic Pasts, Presents, and Futures”...
Gabriel Lake Carter
Jan 12, 20233 min read


Future Histories of Psychedelic Biomedicine
A commonly cited catalyst for the psychedelic renaissance is the renewed interest in biomedical research on psychedelics for mental...
Gabriel Lake Carter
Jan 5, 20233 min read


Mosaics of Support for Psychedelic Risk Reduction
Timothy Leary used the phrase “set and setting” to describe the way that one’s mindset and physical setting impacts their psychedelic...
Gabriel Lake Carter
Dec 15, 20223 min read


Reflections on how the Yaqui Intercultural Medicine Clinic came to be
If you read my previous post, “The Toad Boom: the false narrative of ancestral 5-MeO-DMT use”, you may perhaps have wondered why I wrote...
Anny Ortiz
Dec 6, 20228 min read


Points Interview: Philipp Rühr, Archival Researcher Network participant.
Following on from my recent post on the emergence of the non-profit psychedelic prior art library Porta Sophia, and its Archival...
Amanda Pratt
Dec 1, 20229 min read


Introducing the Archival Researcher Network
Editor’s Note: Amanda Pratt returns to the Pharmaceutical Inequalities series to introduce the Archival Researcher Network by Porta...
Amanda Pratt
Nov 29, 20226 min read


Plants as Psychoactives and Medicines: Touring Allen Centennial Gardens
On a sunny, fall day in Wisconsin, the “Psychedelic Pasts, Presents, and Futures” Borghesi-Mellon working group teamed up with the Allen...
Gabriel Lake Carter
Nov 24, 20222 min read


Psychedelic Baselines
Editor’s Note: Gabriel Lake Carter continues his commentary on a series of Borghesi-Mellon workshops titled ‘Psychedelic Pasts, Presents...
Gabriel Lake Carter
Nov 15, 20226 min read


Transdisciplinarity to Address Inequality in Psychedelic Studies
Editor’s Note: Over five posts, and as part of the Points Pharmaceutical Inequalities feature, Gabriel Lake Carter will provide...
Gabriel Lake Carter
Nov 1, 20226 min read


The toad boom: the false narrative of ancestral 5-MeO-DMT use
Editorial Note: Anny Ortiz returns with her fourth contribution to the Pharmaceutical Inequalities series. In this latest post she...
Anny Ortiz
Oct 18, 20225 min read


Ho-Chunk Nation, Treaty Day, and UW’s ‘Our Shared Future’ commitment
Editor’s Note: On the anniversary of Treaty Day (September 15th, 1832), when the Ho-Chunk Nation ceded Teejop to the United States,...
Maeleigh Tidd
Sep 15, 20226 min read


Right Wing Psychedelia with Dr. Brian Pace and Dr. Neşe Devenot
Amanda Pratt spoke with Dr. Brian Pace and Dr. Neşe Devenot on July 7, 2022 about an article they recently published in Frontiers in...
Amanda Pratt
Aug 2, 20222 min read


How can Pharmacists improve gender-affirming care? An insider’s perspective
Editor’s note: Maeleigh Tidd continues to explore the role of pharmacists in the provision of gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ people,...
Maeleigh Tidd
Jul 26, 20224 min read


History of LGBTQ+ Health and Ongoing Health Disparities & Inequalities
Editor’s note: Maeleigh Tidd returns with another contribution to the Pharmaceutical Inequalities feature, this time co-authored with a...
Maeleigh Tidd
Jul 19, 20226 min read


The Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund
A new paradigm of benefit-sharing in the burgeoning psychedelic science ecosystem Editor’s Note: Anny Ortiz returns with a third...
Anny Ortiz
Jul 12, 20226 min read
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