Culture
Psychedelic Science 2025 featured presentations about state policy initiatives for psychedelic therapies, including the Texas Ibogaine Initiative, bipartisan support for psychedelic legal reform in Nevada, and advocacy by the new Center for Psychedelic Policy.
During the second day of Psychedelic Science 2025, psychologist Carl Hart spoke about “psychedelic exceptionalism,” writer Jamie Wheal questioned the direction of the psychedelic movement, and results from a long-awaited clergy study were announced – plus videos about breathwork, and interviews with Pete Sessa of Cannadelic and boxer Mark Irwin.
The second day of the 2025 Psychedelic Science conference centered Black voices, featuring a celebration of Juneteenth, and talks on the Black psychedelic revolution, support systems for houseless people, and a psychedelic library turned bookmobile.
In our continuation of coverage from the first day of the 2025 Psychedelic Science conference, we report on therapists discussing trauma, lessons from criminal legal reform, psychedelics in athletics, DOI and DOC, PAT for veterans, and the pardons CO governor Polis made on the opening day of the conference.
The first day of talks at the 2025 Psychedelic Science conference in Denver, Colorado featured presentations about psychedelic churches, religious use, and how psychedelics can help address questions around the climate crisis.
The 2025 Psychedelic Science conference kicked off on Wednesday, June 18 with a plenary talk at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
A new annual holiday, Tram Day, has been created to honor Susi Ramstein, the first woman to take LSD and Dr. Albert Hofmann’s laboratory assistant who accompanied him on his famous bicycle ride.
The writer Erik Davis offers tactics for how to keep it together, navigate the weirdness, access creative capacity and respond to what the moment demands without losing our minds.
Paul Ryder returns to his ancestral homelands in the British Isles to connect with the spirits of the land and his warrior heritage.
The 2025 Breaking Convention conference in Exeter, England was a reflection of the fragmented global political landscape and a testament to the power of psychedelics to bridge cultural divides.
