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Petrie-Flom Center 2024 Annual Conference: Law and Policy of Psychedelic Medicine
June 25, 2024, Harvard Law School
Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center
This conference, which will seed a book, seeks to explore the law and policy challenges and opportunities resulting from increased clinical research, private investment, and political interest in psychedelic medicines.
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Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture announces funding recipients
Harvard Gazette
Celebrating its successful launch, the Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture, an interdisciplinary effort that reaches across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Divinity School, has named its first group of funding recipients.
Recent Research
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Essentials of Informed Consent to Psychedelic Medicine
Mason Marks, Rebecca W. Brendel, Carmel Shachar, I. Glenn Cohen, JAMA Psychiatry Analysis of the challenges of designing and implementing psychedelic informed consent practices revealed 7 essential components, including the possibility of short- and long-term perceptual disturbances, potential personality changes and altered metaphysical beliefs, the limited role of reassuring physical touch, the potential for patient abuse or coercion, the role and risks…
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Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium
This event in the CSWR’s Psychedelics and the Future of Religion Series focused on Dr. Erik Davis’s book, “Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium.” Released in collaboration with Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images, the book delves into the complex world of LSD blotter paper and the art that adorns it.
What psychedelics legalisation and decriminalisation looks like around the world
Featuring Petrie-Flom’s Mason Marks in BBC
Psychedelics see increased legalisation and decriminalisation globally as treatment usages expand.
Front of mind for Michael Pollan: psychedelics
What is unique to the new Harvard project, Pollan stressed, is its integration of expertise from the Divinity School and Law School as well as disciplines from across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley, will also contribute. This diversity of thought will enable researchers to pursue nonclinical applications including those in the religious realm.
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