https://www.salon.com/2023/12/06/meet-the-magic-mushroom-shop-salesman-hoping-to-demolish-canadas-on/
Vancouver mushroom entrepreneur Dana Larsen discusses being raided by police and the future of psychedelics
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.202300511
https://www.salon.com/2023/11/03/new-research-is-changing-our-understanding-of-cat-emotions-from-purring-to-their-facial-expressions/
A pair of recent cat studies transforms our understanding of how cats think, feel and interact with humans
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-unveil-world-first-experimental-cocaine-addiction-vaccine
Scientists in Brazil, the world's second-biggest consumer of cocaine, have announced the development of an innovative new treatment for addiction to the drug and its powerful derivative crack: a vaccine.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42276-5
Exposure to cannabis in adolescence is associated with increased risk of psychiatric disorders. Here, in a mouse model of 16p11.2 duplication, the authors identified a role of microglial Cnr1 for mediating the adverse effect of THC exposure on mPFC maturation and social memory.
https://journals.lww.com/nrronline/fulltext/2024/04000/cannabinoids_and_endocannabinoids_as_therapeutics.22.aspx
https://filtermag.org/scapegoat-immigrants-fentanyl/
As the United States continues to grapple with a devastating opioid-involved overdose crisis, conservative policymakers have seized on a familiar ...
https://www.salon.com/2023/10/15/cosmic-melody-astronomical-data-can-be-converted-to-music-revealing-the-universe-like-never-before/
Not only does astronomical sonification expand access for the blind community, it gives scientists new perspective
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-023-00140-x
In this clinical trial, a single dose of intravenous ketamine delivered during surgical anesthesia had no greater effect than placebo in acutely reducing the severity of depressive symptoms in adults with major depressive disorder.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37818448/
A limitation of this study is its post hoc, exploratory design; recommendations for further research are provided.
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