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Re-territorializing María Sabina: Huautla, Mushrooms, and Politics

By Iván Sandoval-Cervantes — 2020

Sitting atop the Oaxacan portion of Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains, Huautla de Jímenez, a small Mazatec town of around thirty thousand people, has received its fair share of international tourism. During the early 1960s, droves of European and American youths visited this Indigenous village searching for hallucinogenic mushrooms.

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Why Canada Could Be Next to Allow Psychedelic Therapy (And How It’s Already Changing Lives)

Now, as a handful of patients and more recently doctors and therapists have been granted exemptions to use psilocybin, the nation’s federal health agency is considering making changes to existing policies that could open the door to much more than magic mushrooms.

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Amanda Siebert
2020
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Psilocybin Sessions: Psychedelics Could Help People with Addiction and Anxiety

Study participants at some of the country's leading medical research centers are going through intense therapy and six-hour psychedelic journeys deep into their minds to do things like quit smoking and worry less.

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Anderson Cooper
2019
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Cultural Humility: A Way to Reduce Health Disparities in the BIPOC Community

While some may say cancer does not discriminate, certain demographic groups bear a disproportionate burden as it relates to incidence, prevalence, mortality, survivorship, outcomes, and other cancer-related measures.

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One Dose of ‘Magic Mushroom’ Drug Reduces Anxiety and Depression in Cancer Patients, Study Says

A single dose of psilocybin, a compound found in “magic mushrooms,” provides long-term relief of anxiety and depression in cancer patients, a new study finds.

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Meera Senthilingam
2020
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Single Dose of Psychedelic Drug Eased Cancer Patients’ Anxiety, Depression for Years

The new research looked at cancer patients who took part in a study nearly five years ago.

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Kaitlin Sullivan
2020
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A Dose of a Hallucinogen from a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and then Lasting Peace

Two studies used psilocybin to see if the drug could reduce depression and anxiety in cancer patients. The results were striking.

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Jan Hoffman
2016
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The Legal and Illegal Ways People Are Turning to Psychedelics as the Drug Regulator Rejects Reclassification Bid

In Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital, down the hall from the cancer day unit, there's an unassuming room known simply as "The Retreat". This is where a select few volunteers are offered a unique opportunity: to confront their deepest fears under a heavy dose of a psychedelic.

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Geoff Thompson and Benjamin Sveen
2021
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‘60 Minutes’ Segment Explores Psychedelics Research at Johns Hopkins

Scientists Roland Griffiths and Matthew Johnson sit down with journalist Anderson Cooper to discuss the promise of psychedelics as a form of treatment for anxiety, depression, addiction, and more.

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60 Minutes
2019
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