Colorado firm seeking FDA nod on microdising drug
A Littleton company is developing a drug using psilocybin mushrooms that it hopes one day will be offered as a natural – and legal – alternative to traditional antidepressants. AJNA …
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Does microdosing magic mushrooms help people with mental health issues? Science is trying to find out
WARNING: This story contains mentions of suicide “Microdosing saved my life,” says Andrina Stan. Stan, 35, works as an integrated therapist in Toronto and has struggled with her mental health …
Off-duty pilot allegedly took mushrooms, hadn’t slept for 40 hours before trying to cut jet’s engines
An off-duty airline pilot riding in an extra cockpit seat on a Horizon Air flight last weekend said “I’m not OK” just before trying to cut the engines mid-flight and …
Pilot Who Tried To Shut Off Plane Engines Had Taken Mushrooms, Not Slept In 40 Hours: Police
Photo: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) (Getty Images) When an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot tried to kill the engines on a commercial flight earlier this week, every reaction seemed to coalesce around a …
University of Colorado studying if psilocybin will help cancer distress
A new study in Colorado is trying to answer definitively whether psychedelics help at least some patients dealing with distress over advanced cancer. Dr. Stacy Fischer, co-leader of cancer prevention …
Bay Area firefighters receive psychedelics
For Angela Graham, it all started eight years ago. Nearly two decades of encountering disturbing scenes while on the job triggered extreme anxiety, nightmares and uncontrollable anger in the retired …