{"id":1969,"date":"2024-10-02T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2024-09-03T13:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T17:47:37","slug":"are-we-ready-for-psychedelics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/are-we-ready-for-psychedelics\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we Ready for Psychedelics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal law has long outlawed the use of psychedelic drugs on grounds they have a \u201chigh potential for abuse and no accepted medical use.\u201d\u00a0 But researchers have proven recently that they do have a valid medical use, for treating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9710723\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post-traumatic stress disorder<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1074742721000897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major depressive disorder, anxiety and addiction. <\/a>\u00a0As legal reform efforts spread across the country, tensions between state and federal laws are rising \u2013 and most people are on the states\u2019 side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psychedelic drugs and the law: What\u2019s next?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/knowablemagazine.org\/content\/article\/society\/2024\/psychedelic-drugs-and-the-law-whats-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/knowablemagazine.org\/content\/article\/society\/2024\/psychedelic-drugs-and-the-law-whats-next<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9798986267432\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal law has long outlawed the use of psychedelic drugs on grounds they have a \u201chigh potential for abuse and no accepted medical use.\u201d\u00a0 But researchers have proven recently that they do have a valid medical use, for treating post-traumatic stress disorder,\u00a0major depressive disorder, anxiety and addiction. \u00a0As legal reform efforts spread across the country,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/are-we-ready-for-psychedelics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Are we Ready for Psychedelics?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,55,40,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-health","category-politics","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1972,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}