#psychedelics

#psychedelics

Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world's largest psychedelics conference, and you'll see exhibitors hawking everything from mushroom jewelry, to chewable gummies containing extracts of the psychoactive succulent plant kanna, to broad flat-brim baseball caps emblazoned with "MDMA" and "IBOGA." Booths publicize organizations such as the Ketamine Taskforce and the Psychedelic Parenthood Community, and even The Faerie Rings, a live-action feature film looking to attract investors.

"I know what it feels like to fall in love, and to feel sad, and to feel envy, and to feel joy, and to feel accomplishment, and to feel shame," Johnson said on the Core Memory podcast on Thursday. "But what else?" Johnson said he wanted to create a "map" of human consciousness to explore the convergence of mind and machine. "If you can, in fact, pair the brain with AI, what could AI do with you, in terms of exploring consciousness?" he said.

Salvia Divinorum is recognized as one of the most powerful hallucinogenic plants, containing the active molecule Salvinorin-A, which has garnered attention in neurobiology research.

"I didn't do it like that," Hassabis said. "I just did it through my gaming and reading a hell of a lot when I was a kid, both science fiction and science."

The HSE warns that a higher dose means a higher risk, particularly when the potency of the product is unclear.

Before my first psychedelic experience, I didn't have the feeling of belonging anywhere, even not in my own body. I always felt I was alien.

"I got into sleeping pills. Ambien, Valium, Xanax, Lorazepam - you name it, I was taking it. On top of that, I was using opiates like hydrocodone and tramadol."

Police executed 29 search warrants against FunGuyz stores, leading to the seizure of over $3.5 million worth of illegal psychedelics, including 181 kg of dried magic mushrooms.