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Dave HodesMay 2, 2022
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“Psychedemia” is a mix of “psychedelic” and “academia”—meaning the integration of psychedelics into academia—and is a term coined by LSD research pioneer Humphry Osmond in 1957. 

It has been used since 2012 as the title for a grassroots collaborative psychedelics conference organized to “foster novel contributions to this burgeoning field,” and to “consider data from new research with an open mind.” 

The three-day psychedemia conference in 2012 was organized by the University of Pennsylvania, the Penn Medicine Neuroscience Center, the Perelman School of Medicine, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the School of Arts and Sciences Student Government, and several other departments was a grand gesture ten years ago to not only raise the awareness of psychedelics but give the whole industry a shot in the arm. 

It represented a sort of full-circle path of academia for psychedelics after academia abandoned psychedelics when Harvard University psychology professor Timothy Leary derailed the industry in the 60s after doing experiments with psilocybin and LSD that “lacked scientific rigor”

Now academia is reclaiming psychedelics and putting more university brainpower into it than ever before.

The psychedemia conference is still going on, with the next one scheduled in August 2022, as a partnership with the newly founded Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education at Ohio State University. It will be presented on the campus.

But academia-inspired conferences and the founding of university-related psychedelics studies centers are just the tip of the iceberg in the huge rush by academia to embrace and better understand psychedelics. 

Masters Degrees

Universities are creating master’s degree level psychedelics classes, attracting world-class scientists to help find novel psychedelics therapeutics, and pushing to create a broader and deeper intellectual base for psychedelics study and research that is just gaining traction.

Here’s a quick look at five developments of note among the reported 100-plus U.S. universities researching psychedelics: 

  1. The Stanford University School of Medicine began an introduction to psychedelics as a speaker series in 2018 and is now an official course at the school, “PSYC 215: Introduction to Psychedelic Medicine.”
  2. In January 2021, the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research was launched at Mount Sinai Health System with the James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical center, to examine the therapeutic potential of psychedelic compounds for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related symptoms. Mount Sinai Health System is New York City’s largest academic medical system, made up of eight hospitals, a medical school, and a network of ambulatory practices throughout the greater New York region.
  3. In July, 2021, Tryp Therapeutics (OTC: TRYPF) partnered with the University of Michigan to work on part of a series of upcoming studies performed with the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center and the Center for Consciousness Science in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan. The series is designed to explore the relationship between a psilocybin-induced increase in neurophysiological complexity and indices of pain in a preclinical model for chronic central pain.
  4. In August, 2021, the University of Wisconsin–Madison opened the doors to its Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances to support research and educational activities about psychedelic drugs and related compounds. The center also supports the university’s master’s degree program, “Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation.”
  5. In March, 2022, the Yale School of Medicine announced that physician-scientists at three major U.S. medical schools will collaborate to develop a curriculum to train psychiatrists in the practice of psychedelic medicine. The project, a collaboration between Yale School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and New York University Grossman School of Medicine, will be funded by a $1 million grant provided by a group of donors, according to a press release.

Brian Pace, a scholar at Ohio State University who teaches psychedelics studies at the university, and is one of the organizers of the 2022 Psychedemia conference to be held at Ohio State, told Open Foundation, a Netherlands non-profit think tank, that the new-agey, cultish stuff they see around psychedelics now, with tuning your chakras and merging souls or whatever, is their fault. “That’s an abdication of the responsibility to investigate interesting questions and to chase down data: to find out how things work,” Pace said. “So where we are now is a very timid and late re-entry to the subject, more so for education than research. Psychedelic research didn’t end when the universities and governments abandoned it. It continued in the underground. The role of the university courses on psychedelics is to identify and evaluate high-quality information on the topic. We have a lot of catching up to do and I think that should be done with humility.”


Kaitlin DomangueMarch 4, 2021
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It’s time for your Daily Hit of cannabis financial news for March 4th, 2021. 

On the Site

Columbia Care Guides Higher for 2021

Columbia Care Inc.  (OTCQX: CCHWF)  released preliminary results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2020 and issued 2021 guidance. Actual revenue rose 228% in the fourth quarter to $76 million versus $23 million for the same time period in 2019. 

While this is a solid performance, it does miss the analyst estimates for revenue of $79 million in the fourth quarter according to Yahoo Finance. The combined results for the fourth quarter are listed as $81 million. 

 

Cannabis Companies Go On Buying Spree

This week has been unusually active as cannabis companies have been on a major buying spree.

  • Schwazze acquires Star Buds for roughly $72.3 million
  • Greenlane acquires Eyce for an undisclosed amount
  • Terra Tech buys UMBRLA, Inc., recently rebranded as Unrivaled for an undisclosed amount

 

PACT Act to Apply to All Vaping Products

Amendments to the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking (PACT) Act may have caused cannabis to hit yet another setback. The PACT Actt has been amended to include “electronic nicotine delivery systems”, which looks inclusive to cannabis at first glance. However, it’s described as followed:

“any electronic device that, through an aerosolized solution, delivers nicotine, flavor, or any other substance to the user inhaling from the device including an e-cigarette; an e-hookah; an e-cigar; a vape pen; an advanced refillable personal vaporizer; an electronic pipe; and any component, liquid, part, or accessory of a device described without regard to whether the component, liquid, part, or accessory is sold separately from the device.”

This means that USPS can no longer deliver cannabis vape products to consumers. 

 

Delic Moves To Focus On At-Home Mushroom With Homestead Acquisition

Psychedelic media company Delic Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: DELCF) has acquired mushroom kit maker and media company Homestead brands in an all-stock deal. DELIC issued subordinate voting shares worth $50,000 and 50,000 incentive stock options were also granted to Homestead founder David Tatelman, with an exercise price of $0.58. David Tatelman will act as a consultant to the company.

 

Charlotte’s Web Moving Beyond Hemp

Well-known hemp CBD company Charlotte’s Web Holdings, Inc.  (OTCQX: CWBHF) is expanding beyond its current model with a planned acquisition of privately-held Stanley Brothers USA Holdings. Stanley Brothers is a cannabis wellness incubator currently operating in three states (Colorado, California, Florida) with expansion plans underway in eight additional states.

The acquisition though isn’t immediate. Instead, Charlotte’s Web is pursuing a five-year option plan valued at $8 million, which could be extended to seven years.

In Other News

Tryp Therapeutics Announces Application to List on OTCQB

Pharmaceutical company focused on identifying and developing clinical-stage compounds for diseases with complex and unmet medical care, announced today their application to list on the OTCQB® Venture Market OTCQB. 

 

Illinois Dispensaries See $2.88 Million in Daily Sales in February 

Illinois dispensaries sold almost $2.9 million dollars worth of cannabis last month, outpacing the record set just one month earlier. The state’s retail shops sold more than $80 dollars in adult-use cannabis last month, a slight drop from $88 million in February. 


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