/PRNewswire/ Psychedelics have made some spectacular breakthroughs to gain legitimacy as mental healthcare products and to become an emerging health and.
February 11, 2021 at 6:00 am
Gertrude the pig rooted around a straw-filled pen, oblivious to the cameras and onlookers and the 1,024 electrodes eavesdropping on her brain signals. Each time the pig’s snout found a treat in a researcher’s hand, a musical jingle sounded, indicating activity in her snout-controlling nerve cells.
Those beeps were part of the big reveal on August 28 by Elon Musk’s company Neuralink. “In a lot of ways, it’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,” said Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, of the new technology.
Neuroscientists have been recording nerve cell activity from animals for decades. But the ambitions of Musk and others to link humans with computers are shocking in their reach. Future-minded entrepreneurs and researchers aim to listen in on our brains and perhaps even reshape thinking. Imagine being able to beckon our Teslas with our minds, Jedi-style.
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Boston Suburbs Look To Decriminalize Natural Psychedelics
That includes psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, the peyote cacti and the iboga plant.
On Wednesday, Cambridge, Massachusetts voted 8 to 1 in its City Council to decriminalize “all Entheogenic Plants and plant-based compounds,” making them a lowest law enforcement priority (h/t Marijuana Moment).
Three weeks earlier, Somerville passed a similar measure with unanimous votes from its City Council.
Cambridge and Somerville have a population of over 105,000 and 80,000, respectively.
The Cambridge resolution makes notice of the fact that the so-called War on Drugs “has historically led to unnecessary penalization, arrest, and incarceration of vulnerable people, particularly people of color and of limited financial means.”
Cybin Announces Closing of Upsized Bought Deal Offering
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