Category: Policy

Controversies Around California’s Psychedelic Decriminalization Law Senate Bill 519

Now, the California legislature is on the verge of becoming the first legislative body to...

Can Coca Leaf Avoid the Wrongs of The Psychedelic Revolution?

On August 25, 2020, a proposal presented in Colombia’s Congress to regulate coca and its...

Psilocybin Mushrooms in Mexico in Danger of Extinction

One of the psychoactive mushrooms described by Gordon Wasson in LIFE magazine (1957) is today...

Two Projects Seek to Change the Legal Status of Peyote and Mushrooms in Mexico

Mexico is currently debating ritual and traditional uses, as well as non-Indigenous and therapeutic uses...

Ayahuasca FOIA Requests Reveal Increased Ayahuasca Seizures, Lack of Due Process and Government Secrecy

In February 2021, the Church of the Eagle and Condor (CEC) and the Chacruna Institute...

DEA Denies Soul Quest’s Religious Exemption: Impacts on the Ayahuasca Community

For four years, Soul Quest and their lawyers petitioned for Religious Freedom Restoration Exemption against...

Terminally Ill Patients Sue DEA for Psilocybin Treatment Under Right to Try Act

“The Right to Try Act” gives patients with life-threatening diseases a way to access investigational...

The Decriminalization of Marijuana in Brazil Beyond the Medicinal Use: Cannabis Associations and Human Rights

In recent times, there has been more advances in medical research on cannabis. Francisco Savoi...

Controversies on the Environmental Legislation on Ayahuasca in Brazil

The religious use of ayahuasca has been the subject of drug policies in Brazil since...

Open Letter to the Psychedelic Movement Regarding Peyote in Policy Efforts and How to be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples of North America

The Indigenous Peyote Conservation Communication Committee wrote a letter to the psychedelic community regarding the...
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