psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 9hRoughly 8 million Americans used psilocybin last year. Almost no one who responds when an experience turns into a crisis has been trained for it. Ohio's P.E.A.C.E. program is changing that. 100
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 10hPsychedelic churches are multiplying. Few institutions exist to train their leaders and hold them accountable. A new oped from Paul Ryder on the case for psychedelic seminaries. 200
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Practitioners presenting from active practice. Ibogaine, extended state DMT, 5-MeO, and a two-day music workshop. Vital Conference, Breckenridge, Nov 6 through 10. Early bird ends Monday. psychedelicstodayshop.com/products/vit... 010
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The FDA is deciding how psychedelic care will work, and its plan is built for psychiatry. Chronic pain is barely in it. Public comments close Monday, Oct. 5 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Here's how to add yours in 10 minutes. Link below! 100
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oregon dropped its plan to double psilocybin license fees. It still hasn't said how it will cover a projected multimillion-dollar shortfall. That, plus DEA's new Schedule I proposal, in this week's policy briefing: psychedelicstoday.com/2026/09/30/p... 000
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This week's Psychedelic Policy Briefing: the FDA's psychedelics hearing, S.4220 and Alabama's marijuana rescheduling. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/09/22/p...psychedelicstoday.comWeekly Psychedelic Policy Briefing, September 21, 2026This week in psychedelic policy: a silent FDA panel, the American Legion's S.4220 claims, and Alabama's four-month rescheduling hold. 000
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Two minutes with the FDA. Lynn Watkins spent them on chronic pain, and on what touch during a psilocybin session made possible: all five toes moving for the first time in nine years. The wire ran a different line under her name. She didn't say it. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/09/16/w... 010
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026New column from Logan Davidson: veterans built the psychedelic policy fight, and this year first responders joined them in state after state. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/09/10/p... 021
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026DC area friends: join us September 14 for THE GATEWAY after the FDA psychedelic hearing. Food, drinks, networking, and a live podcast on what happened at FDA and what comes next. 5:00–8:30 PM · Silver Spring, MD secure.everyaction.com/z6Pd9tpUSkSU... 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 25/08/2026New briefing. Oregon's psilocybin program got its first outcome study the same season the state proposed doubling licensing fees. Plus Overton at FDA and J&J into Delix. bit.ly/4wMr4Fobit.lyWeekly Psychedelic Policy Briefing: August 23, 2026New JAMA data on the Oregon psilocybin program lands as fee hikes threaten it. Plus Heidi Overton's FDA nomination and J&J's $85M Delix round. 000
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Resilient Pharmaceuticals refiled its MDMA NDA for PTSD without the new Phase 3 trial the FDA asked for in 2024. Plus: Canada's C$24M brain health consortium and Definium's oral LSD clearing Phase 3 in GAD. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/08/18/m...psychedelicstoday.comWeekly Psychedelic Policy Briefing - August 16, 2026Resilient Pharmaceuticals resubmits its MDMA NDA to the FDA. Canada funds a C$24M brain health consortium. Definium's oral LSD clears Phase 3. 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Our Psychedelics & Society panel in NYC is now on YouTube. Myriam Barthes, Mahyad Tousi, Court Wing, Dr. AZA Stephen Allsop, Devon Phillips, Anne Philippi, Marissa of PSYCA, and me. Thank you Journey Clinical for hosting. More cities coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jovv...youtube.comPsychedelics & SocietyYouTube video by Marissa 010
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The VA's new psilocybin trial runs on COMP360, Compass Pathways' proprietary formulation, donated for the study. Compass is targeting a Q4 2026 approval application. Federal research infrastructure, privately held compound. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/08/10/p...psychedelicstoday.comWeekly Psychedelic Policy Briefing - August 9, 2026This week in psychedelic policy: the VA's five-site psilocybin trial, a Senate vote delaying the hemp THC ban, and FDA's final trial guidance 051
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Gabon has classified iboga and its derivatives as national strategic heritage, putting research and export under state authorization. US ibogaine policy has mostly not accounted for it. Ismail Ali of MAPS on what that costs: psychedelicstoday.com/2026/08/10/i... 020
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Glassware from Sasha Shulgin’s laboratory is being transformed into art supporting DanceSafe and the Shulgin Foundation. Megan Bowers and Mikayla Hellwich join Joe Moore to discuss MDMA history, psychedelic archives, harm reduction, prohibition, recreation, and cognitive liberty. bit.ly/4yYHFrV 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Louisiana is funding psilocybin, ibogaine and MDMA trials with opioid settlement money. If a drug comes out of it, the state takes 20% of profits. A state health department holding equity in a Schedule I medicine is new. bit.ly/4w8ZEZY 020
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Can art create a psychedelic experience without drugs? Mareesa Stertz discusses Sphinx Gate, the Hero’s Journey, integration, community, and plans to bring smaller sphinx installations around the country. bit.ly/4fLHGXc 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 30/07/202612 veterans with severe treatment-resistant PTSD. Two psilocybin doses. 9 in remission at one month (75%). Symptoms dropped after prep therapy alone, before dosing. This change predicted outcomes. Expectancy didn't appear to impact performance. New from OSU! psychedelicstoday.com/2026/07/30/p...psychedelicstoday.comPsilocybin Trial in Veterans With Treatment-Resistant PTSD Reports 75% Remission at One MonthAn Ohio State pilot trial of psilocybin for veterans with PTSD reported remission in nine of twelve participants at one month. 010
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Tonight 🍄 Journeys + live Q&A with the filmmakers. The psilocybin therapy doc that talks to both sides — patients, veterans, facilitators, clinicians. Watch on Vimeo first, then join us + Psychetheatrics on Zoom, 5p PT / 6p MT. Free RSVP → www.eventbrite.com/e/journeys-a...eventbrite.comJOURNEYS: A Film Experience & Live Conversation with the FilmmakersWatch JOURNEYS your way—on Vimeo or in community—then join Psychedelics Today for a live Q&A discussion with the creative team. 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Same defense bill, same week: the House extended Pentagon psychedelic research through 2033 and blocked a Right to Try expansion for patients with life-threatening conditions. Fund the study, block the access. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/07/30/p...psychedelicstoday.comPsychedelic Policy Briefing: Week of July 27th, 2026Psychedelic policy this week: the House extends military research to 2033, blocks Right to Try, and the FDA may revisit MDMA. 010
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Can the mind become conscious of its own programming? Drs. Rachel Turetzky and Douglas Wingate explore the Eight-Circuit Model, developmental imprints, altered states, and psychedelic integration with Joe Moore and Kyle Buller. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/07/23/e... 010
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Eli Lilly buys AtaiBeckley for up to $3.8B. Texas funds its own ibogaine trials. A manslaughter charge in Miami Beach. A Diné chapter asks the DEA to block commercial mescaline. All in one week. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/07/20/p...psychedelicstoday.comPsychedelic Policy Briefing: Week of July 20th, 2026Psychedelic policy this week: Texas ibogaine trials, Eli Lilly's $3.8B AtaiBeckley deal, a Miami retreat death charge, and Diné opposition to mescaline plans. 010
Reposted by @psychedelicstoday.bsky.socialRachel Nuwer @rachelnuwer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Mitochondria, the body's strangest organelles, might be the link between biology, health, and mind — possibly responsible, even, for the materialization of consciousness into life. @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/martin-picar...quantamagazine.orgMartin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind | Quanta MagazineThe biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive. 061
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Your mind: a Thinker that decides what's true, and a Prover that finds evidence for it. Accuracy optional. Psychedelics suspend the Prover, briefly. Rachel Turetzky on metaprogramming and why insights fade: psychedelicstoday.com/2026/07/17/w... 010
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The US wants ibogaine. Gabon just made iboga national strategic heritage: no research, export, or sale without state approval. A Gabonese official on what the rush looks like from the other side. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/07/13/i...psychedelicstoday.comThe Rush for Iboga Looks Different from GabonGabon's new iboga decree puts sovereignty and reciprocity at the center of the ibogaine boom. A view from inside the Gabonese government. 013
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Congress filed the IBOGAINE Act: 60 days for the AG to decide whether ibogaine leaves Schedule I. Plus Oregon's psilocybin fee hikes and a former CIA officer telling a House panel the MKUltra research never stopped. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/07/05/p...psychedelicstoday.comPsychedelic Policy Briefing: Week of July 6, 2026The IBOGAINE Act, Oregon psilocybin fee hikes, DEA action on 7-OH, and MKUltra testimony in this week's psychedelic policy briefing. 012
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Clinical psychiatry was built to reduce pathology. It has no language for a client who says they just merged with everything. New op-ed makes the case for a different framework. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/07/03/8...psychedelicstoday.comThe Framework Gap in Psychedelic Practice: An Introduction to the 8-Circuit Model of ConsciousnessThe 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness offers psychedelic practitioners a map for the states clinical frameworks can't hold. 000
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 01/07/2026In 1964, when LSD was still legal, the filmmaker Fellini did a supervised session he said shaped one of his films. It's a footnote in Italy's forgotten psychedelic history, ~900 patients treated between 1930 and 1967, then buried. New piece: psychedelicstoday.com/2026/06/29/i...psychedelicstoday.comA Country That Recalls Its Own ForgettingItaly's forgotten psychedelic history is resurfacing. Inside its research, policy, and the fight to keep these therapies public. 010
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A White House aide tied to Trump's psychedelics executive order is now reportedly on the FDA commissioner shortlist. The White House calls it "baseless hearsay." That plus Louisiana's Aug 1 research program in this week's briefing: 121
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Three states moved on psychedelics this month. NC: $5.4M for research it can't act on. NH: ibogaine for the clinic, psilocybin killed for patients. IL: full legalization. New from Jack Gorsline: psychedelicstoday.com/2026/06/23/p...psychedelicstoday.comPsychedelic Policy Briefing: Week of June 22nd, 2026North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Illinois advance psychedelic policy bills on psilocybin, MDMA, and ibogaine research for veterans and trauma care. 111
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The US is fast-tracking MDMA for veterans and emergency-banning a ketamine analog it's seen 52 times in 8 years. Federal psychedelic policy in 2026 is conflicted. New briefing by Jack Gorsline maps contradiction: psychedelicstoday.com/2026/06/17/f...psychedelicstoday.comPsychedelic Policy Briefing: Week of June 16, 2026Federal psychedelic policy in 2026 divides over veterans access. Congress pushes MDMA and psilocybin research while the DEA bans analogs and stalls rescheduling. Inside the contradiction shaping psych... 000
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 12/06/2026"They want me out of this world." His mother said it daily during a depression no one treated. Now he builds an AI tool for therapists and argues they belong beside practitioners, not in place of them. He also discusses AI risks in the therapy mix. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/06/12/o...psychedelicstoday.comOut of This World: Why AI Belongs Beside the TherapistSafar founder Sabba Nazhand. Why AI in mental health care should work beside therapists, not replace them, and the risks builders must face. 000
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 11/06/2026108 psychedelic bills across 41 states this term. Colorado just made Indigenous benefit-sharing a condition of its ibogaine program, a first. Tennessee passed the HOPE Act. Michigan's fighting over opioid settlement money. Our new weekly state policy briefing: psychedelicstoday.com/2026/06/11/p...psychedelicstoday.comPsychedelic Policy Briefing: June 11, 2026State-by-state breakdown of 2026 psychedelic policy: ibogaine research, pilot programs, benefit sharing, and the political fights shaping legal access. 120
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Utah's HB 390 funds a clinical study of MDMA, psilocybin, and 5-MeO-DMT for veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD. Not legalization, not decriminalization. First state to name 5-MeO-DMT in law. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/06/09/u...psychedelicstoday.comUtah’s Quiet Revolution: Why HB 390 May Be the Most Significant Psychedelic Legislation of 2026Utah's HB 390 funds clinical research into MDMA, psilocybin, and 5-MeO-DMT for veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD. What the law does and does not do. 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 24/05/2026ARPA-H committed $50M to psychedelic research. At the Federal Summit on Psychedelic Medicine in D.C., the conversation was about implementation: approval, reimbursement, veterans access. We were there and loved the meeting. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/05/22/a...psychedelicstoday.comAt the Federal Psychedelic Medicine Summit, the Mood Was Urgent, Practical, and Increasingly CoordinatedFederal leaders, veterans advocates, and investors gathered in D.C. to work through what it will actually take to implement psychedelic medicine at scale. 011
Reposted by @psychedelicstoday.bsky.socialSV is riding the Interurban Queen @unwindlearning.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Very much a recommend. Live and live streaming. #psychedelicscienceeventbrite.comOral Histories Series: The Hidden Impact of Women EditionJoin us at the Shulgin Farm for an intimate conversation to learn directly from those who shaped the movement’s foundations. 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 18/05/2026A psychedelic therapy playlist is not background music. Lyrics, tempo, key, track length, silence, and transitions all change the room. The new piece on Psychedelics Today looks at what practitioners need to understand before pressing play. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/05/13/m...psychedelicstoday.comMusic in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: An Introduction to Sound, Playlist Curation, and Why Every Practitioner Needs to Understand BothLearn how music shapes psychedelic-assisted therapy, from playlist design and emotional arc to ketamine, psilocybin, and emerging research. 030
Reposted by @psychedelicstoday.bsky.socialPsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Private religious practices are linked to lower blood pressure spikes during stresspsypost.orgPrivate religious practices are linked to lower blood pressure spikes during stressPeople who frequently pray or read religious texts in private tend to experience lower blood pressure spikes when stressed. A new study provides evidence that specific religious behaviors, rather than general spirituality, help regulate the body's stress response. 051
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Psychedelic conference in Berlin? Sounds perfect. Starts May 15! Take part of Europe’s biggest event for mental health, psychedelic science, wellness, longevity and human flourishing. bit.ly/3R1a6Uzbit.lyTRYP EXPO Berlin 2026 – Science – Psychedelics – Music – WellnessEuropes biggest event for mental health, psychedelic science, wellness, festival and human flourishing. ADVANCE YOUR MIND – EXPAND YOUR WORLD May 15–17, 2026 · Funkhaus Berlin 010
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Andrew Feldmár argues that psychedelic psychotherapy begins with relationship, not protocol, certainty, or promises of cure. Content note: brief mention of suicide. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/05/08/n...psychedelicstoday.comNo Promises and No GoalsAndrew Feldmár argues that psychedelic psychotherapy begins with relationship, not protocol, certainty, or promises of cure. 000
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Erica Rex joins Psychedelics Today to discuss trauma, integration, psychedelic hype, and her book Seeing What Is There. A sharp conversation on what psychedelics can open up, and what still has to happen after the session ends. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/04/23/e...psychedelicstoday.comErica Rex: Seeing What Is There, Trauma, Integration, and the Limits of Psychedelic TherapyErica Rex discusses Seeing What Is There, trauma, integration, psychedelic hype, and the limits of psychiatric medicine. 000
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Whitehouse Directs FDA, HHS and VA to Expand Psychedelic Research Pathways psychedelicstoday.com/2026/04/20/w...psychedelicstoday.comWhitehouse Directs FDA, HHS and VA to Expand Psychedelic Research PathwaysTrump’s April 2026 executive order speeds psychedelic drug review and research, but stops short of legalization, approval, or insurance coverage. 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 14/04/2026open.substack.com/pub/jomo137/... This paper should be a bigger deal than it probably will be. A new U.S. multi-criteria decision analysis found that federal drug policy does not line up with expert rankings of actual harm. Fentanyl, meth, crack, and heroin ranked highest.open.substack.comTowards a Science Based Drug Policy? Or Nah?This paper should be a bigger deal than it probably will be. 020
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Join the Chacruna Institute team in San Francisco coming up soon!! This conference is really great. Academic, culturual and connecting. If you can make it, go to the bay for this one. www.psychedelic-culture.netpsychedelic-culture.netPSYCHEDELIC CULTURE 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Betty Aldworth and Ismail Ali, co-executive directors of MAPS, join Psychedelics Today to discuss leadership transition, the future of MAPS, and where psychedelic research, education, and policy may be headed next. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/03/19/b...psychedelicstoday.comBetty Aldworth & Ismail Ali: MAPS Co-Executive Directors on Leadership, Research, and the Future of PsychedelicsMAPS co-executive directors Betty Aldworth and Ismail Ali discuss leadership, research, policy, and the future of MAPS. 041
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed H.B. 390 into law. It does not legalize broad psychedelic access but it authorizes a tightly regulated clinical study at Huntsman for veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD. A narrow step, but a meaningful one. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/03/19/g...psychedelicstoday.comGov. Spencer Cox Signs Utah’s H.B. 390 Into Law, Authorizing Psychedelic Research for Veterans With PTSDUtah Gov. Spencer Cox signed H.B. 390 into law, authorizing a tightly regulated psychedelic therapy study for veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD at Huntsman. 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 10/03/2026This Saturday: 5 panels, 10+ experts, one full day on psychedelics & depth psychology. Feat. Dr. Matthew Johnson, Dr. David Lukoff & more. March 15 | Zoom | $55 www.psychedeliceducationcenter.com/expanding-ho...psychedeliceducationcenter.comExpanding Horizons in Mental Health: Psychedelics, Depth, and the Human Psyche — Education CenterExpanding Horizons in Mental Health: Psychedelics, Depth, and the Human Psyche 000
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Jen Davenport interviews Joe Moore about Psychedelics Today, psychedelic integration, and the shifting psychedelic landscape. Listen: bit.ly/4liJ4ms @jomo137.bsky.socialbit.lyJoe Moore Psychedelics Today on Leadership, Integration, and the Psychedelic LandscapeJen Davenport joins Psychedelics Today to interview the CEO and co-founder Joe Moore about the growth of Psychedelics Today, the broader psychedelic ecosystem, and how professionals are beginning to e... 011
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 09/03/2026One of Colorado's first licensed psychedelic healing centers was bootstrapped. No outside investment. The bank closed their accounts mid-process. Jillian Gordon wrote about all of it for us here. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/03/05/n... 340
psychedelicstoday.bsky.social @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Buy one seat in Navigating Psychedelics and bring a friend free. After purchase we email you a coupon code your friend can use to enroll at no cost. Learn preparation, harm reduction, and integration frameworks. www.psychedeliceducationcenter.com/navigating-p... 000