A documentary film titled A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin explores the use of psilocybin as a treatment for cancer patients. “The film presents an intimate look into the lives of several terminally ill cancer patients participating in the studies, and opens an intriguing discourse of...
The New Yorker magazine offers a detailed and insightful examination of Erowid, the online clearing house for information about psychoactive substances. Writer Emily Witt visits the rural California home of Earth and Fire Erowid, the couple behind the hugely successful web site that attracts a...
In “The Psychedelic Dante,” an article in the February 6, 2015 issue of The American Conservative, writer Rod Dreher discovers parallels between the psychedelic experience and Dante’s Divine Comedy. Dreher begins by noting significant results in current psychedelic science with references to Heffter-supported research by Roland...
The Wisconsin Public Radio show “Central Time” recently interviewed two members of the psychedelic research team at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. (See this blog post for more on the UW study.) Central Time host Veronica Rueckert spoke with Paul Hutson, the lead researcher,...
