Where the Renaissance Gets Real Something important is happening in the world of psychedelics—and it’s moving quickly. Research is expanding, therapies are entering the mainstream, and conversations that once felt niche are now shaping global discourse. The...
Breaking Convention: More than a ConferenceThis August, Breaking Convention, one of the world’s largest conferences on psychoactive substances took place at the University of Greenwich, London. Over 1500 people attended, coming together to share and discuss...
Summer Love Sale and The 50th Anniversary of WoodstockThis year commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the legendary music festival Woodstock. Woodstock began in 1969, taking place in Bethel, New York. It was one of the world’s most iconic music festivals with an...
Reflections of the 2019 World Ayahuasca Conference This was the third World Ayahuasca Conference held in Girona, Spain last June, which brought together 1400 people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, disciplines, and traditions. Three days of fascinating,...
Richard Evans Schultes; The Father of Contemporary EthnobotanyRichard Evans Schultes is one of the most important plant explorers known to the 20th century. Initially a medical student at Harvard, he later went on to do a course in economic botany, finding himself...
Delving into the Secret Drugs of BuddhismDid the Buddhists of the ancient world make use of shamanic plants and psychedelic sacraments in their sacred rituals? This is the broad topic that Buddhist lama and author, Michael Crowley, attempts to unfurl in his book...
Celebrating Bicycle Day 2019The celebration of ‘Bicycle Day’ does not commemorate the invention of our favorite two-wheeled vehicle, it serves as an homage to the day that Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first intentionally ingested Lysergic Acid Diethylamide...