Essential Guide to the Psychedelic Renaissance

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MICHAEL POLLAN'S 'HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND' ARRIVES ON NETFLIX

By Gabriel García on June 22, 2022

The first trailer for Netflix’s new four-part documentary series How to Change Your Mind has been released. New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan’s 2018 book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence is being adapted by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney. The documentary series, like the book, aims to inform viewers about a lesser-known side effect of some psychedelic drugs.

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Why is the use of some psychedelics illegal?

By Gabriel García on June 16, 2022

The idea of banning all “recreational” use of certain psychoactive substances was driven by a growing influence of Anglo-American Christian Puritanism and the temperance movement against alcohol in the late temperance movement against alcohol in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which in the United States also led to the prohibition of alcohol in the United States between 1920 and 1933. The campaign for prohibition was also fueled by racist sentiments toward by racist sentiments toward immigrants from China and Mexico, who used opiates and cannabis.

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Why are psychedelics making a comeback?

By Gabriel García on June 9, 2022

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around the world there are 450 million people suffering from mental disorders and estimates that one in four people in the world will suffer, at some point in their lives, some mental disorder. Faced with this panorama and the lack of success in the treatment of some of the diseases, several researchers have resorted to look for other alternatives, among them, the use of psychedelics.

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What are psychedelics? Psychedelics and Mental Health

By Gabriel García on June 1, 2022

The Psychedelic Renaissance promises to revolutionize mental health through the use of psychedelics, but what exactly are psychedelics? The relationship between psychedelics and mental health has been studied since the 1940s. As we discussed in our post on the Psychedelic Renaissance, the excess of uncontrolled recreational use and a campaign to discredit the cultural movement to which they were linked caused research on their effects on mental health to be abandoned in most universities.

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