[Event] Drugs can be dangerous. But does banning them cause more harm than good?
Come along to an event by Anyone’s Child: Families for Safer Drug Control, a group of families whose lives have been torn apart because of our disastrous drug law. Hear why they and others are now...
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Up the Devil’s Staircase: BF Fundraiser Cameron Young’s Epic Cross-Country Walk
The intrepid Cameron Young has completed a sponsored walk to raise money for the pioneering psychedelic research and drug policy reform initiatives that we undertake at the Beckley Foundation! We are...
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Beyond Psychedelics Speaker’s Bio: Amanda Feilding
Amanda Feilding is Director of the Beckley Foundation, a UK-based think tank and UN-accredited NGO, which she founded in 1998. Its chief objectives are studying the mechanisms underlying altered...
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Breaking Barriers: Prohibition Doesn’t Save Anyone’s Child
Three perspectives, one conclusion: whilst drugs are illegal, no one is safe. We heard from Neil Woods, former undercover agent and chairman of LEAP UK (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), writer and...
View ArticleYes we cannabis: VolteFace poll finds most MPs support medical legalisation
The majority of MPs would legalise medical cannabis. Our friends at the drug policy innovation hub VolteFace have found that 58% of MPs backed the use of cannabis for people battling health conditions....
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Ayahuasca and Creativity: the Amazonian Plant Brew Improves Divergent Thinking
A new study by our collaborator, Jordi Riba, Kim Kuypers and colleagues from the Maastricht University, has shown that ayahuasca increases divergent thinking – one of the hallmarks of creativity. What...
View ArticleIDPC’s Open Letter calling on the UN drug control bodies to publicly condemn...
We stand with 300+ NGOs in calling on the United Nations to take immediate action on the hundreds of extrajudicial killings of suspected drug offenders in the Philippines LONDON (2nd August 2016) –...
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Green in 2016: Amanda Feilding returns to Jamaica’s blossoming cannabis industry
Following the relaxation of Jamaica’s cannabis policies in 2015, which effectively decriminalize the substance, it became newly possible to regulate and trade cannabis in Jamaica. Amanda Feilding...
View ArticleGet Ready for Beyond Psychedelics: Leading Experts Headed to Prague
Beginning on September 30th and lasting until October 2nd, Amanda Feilding will be attending an international conference in Prague on psychedelic substances called Beyond Psychedelics. During this...
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Following on from fabric: a post by Amanda Feilding
I completely support Dave Nutt in what he says in the Guardian article about the recent closure of fabric… If we want to be realistic in minimising drug-associated harms and protecting young people’s...
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Spirited display: the first study to show that DMT protects brain and immune...
Since the discovery of endogenous DMT (when the human body produces the chemical of its own accord) by the Hungarian psychiatrist Steven Saraza in 1956, scientists have been entranced by the “spirit...
View ArticleThe Future of Psychedelics: Symposium
Amanda Feilding has been hailed by The New Scientist as the “hidden hand” behind the renaissance of psychedelic science and drug policy reform. When she set up the Beckley Foundation in 1998, she did...
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