Is silent darkness the way to get the most intense psychedelic experiences? A new paper from our group with P. Mediano, Fernando Rosas 🦋, Chris Timmermann, Robin Carhart-Harris et al shows that tripping is most intense when sensory stimulation is low/minimal. 🍄 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The final proofs and cover for my book on the philosophy of psychedelics have just been approved. The book will come out in December this year.

History in the making - this is the first 'normal' (i.e. not in a clinical trial) script written in the modern era for psychedelic assisted therapy (180mg of MDMA) by Dr Ted Cassidy in Melbourne, Australia. More details here: linkedin.com/posts/tedcassi…

Congratulations to BryanRoth et al. for an important new paper that employs AlphaFold2 to predict some radically new 5-HT2A agonists, hundreds of which were synthesized and tested. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

AlphaFold found thousands of possible psychedelics. Will its predictions help drug discovery? nature.com/articles/d4158…

When America First Dropped Acid buff.ly/491inM2

Field trip: inside America’s first magic mushroom school buff.ly/494EwsN

MDMA may help prevent "bad trips" on psilocybin or LSD, study suggests buff.ly/49221TD

Paperback is off the press - on sale Feb 27 in the UK, April 30 in US

There’s Now A Way To Stay In DMT Space Longer buff.ly/3OVnzcN

I wrote about the efforts of MAPS (now Lykos Therapeutics) in getting MDMA therapy FDA approved, and what this treatment may look like when it's available. psychedelic.support/resources/maps…

Psychedelic news: FDA finally fast-tracked LSD as an anxiety treatment buff.ly/3PdEA1T

Congrats, Germany! 🇩🇪 Green smoke rose from the Bundesrat (Federal Council) building today after it voted to pass the CanG recreational cannabis legalization bill.

Amazing promotional flier, my dear friend Jenn Sunday, put together for the upcoming book! Design by Jenna Sunday Art by yours truly. I love this vintage paperback style✨️

(still manifesting) cover design by Ellen Osborne 🤌❤️📖

The philosopher Yannick Joye argues we need more fractal architecture in cities for the sake of our mental well-being. samwoolfe.com/2020/04/the-ae…

Scavengers Reign (2023) is now available on Netflix (at least, in the US & UK). Please watch this beautiful, weird, frightening, fresh, poetic, fascinating sci-fi masterpiece. We have the power to collectively spawn a Season 2. 🖖

The company I work for (Mindstate Design Labs) has received FDA approval to trial the use of 5-MeO-MiPT in humans!!! We’ve been working toward this for years, our goal is to selectively modulate the experience with secondary compounds identified through the use of AI models that

If you haven't watched Scavengers Reign yet, this is the perfect weekend for it, this show is peak sci fi.

I wrote about an aspect of psychedelic integration that I feel is often neglected: #memory recall. I look at how #sleep quality, memory cues, and the way we relate to memories can enhance and sustain the benefits of these experiences. chemical-collective.com/the-role-of-me…