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Entheogens as Cultural Technologies

When people talk about psychedelics and cannabis today, the conversation usually splits into lanes: clinical trials, Silicon Valley microdosing hacks, or wellness trends.  But before they were hashtags or “treatments,” entheogens like ayahuasca, peyote, psilocybin, and cannabis carried a much…

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Cannabis, Psychedelics, and the Endocannabinoid Link: Part 1

This series explores the deep but underexamined connection between cannabis and psychedelics, two plant medicines that act on different yet overlapping systems in the brain and body. While cannabis primarily tunes the endocannabinoid system (ECS) and psychedelics activate the serotonergic…

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Takeaways from the M.A.P.S. Conference 2025

My attendance at the 2025 Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Conference in Denver, Colorado, created dimensions of unlearning, relearning, and reconstructing my very antiquated paradigms surrounding psychedelics. This spurred new questions I didn’t expect. Let me take you on a…

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Grey Market Mushrooms Series Part I: Mush Melo

Art Courtesy of Casey Renteria After one of the country’s largest psychedelic conferences has left Denver, more people than ever are curious about how integrating mushrooms, MDMA and more can help them find some inner peace. With this new wave…

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The First Annual Yuy Fest

Photos Courtesy of Author The first annual community mushroom festival titled “Yuy Fest” just wrapped up in the historic center of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. ‘Yuy’ is the Tzotzil indigenous word for ‘Amanita’, a genus of mushrooms that…

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