The Microdose
The Microdose, jane c. hu, Whitney Bauck, Shayla Love, Anna Marie Yanny, Chloe Garcia Roberts, Robin BerghausAn independent journalism newsletter supported by the U.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
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Is the boom in toad-derived 5-MeO-DMT built on a false history? Colorado’s new law lays groundwork for ibogaine access
Happy Friday and welcome back to The Microdose, an independent journalism newsletter brought to you by the U.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
Is the boom in toad-derived 5-MeO-DMT built on a false history?
In a paper pu...
The poster child for psychedelic mushrooms is named after a country that doesn’t use it
Psilocybe cubensis, which produces mushrooms with whitish stalks, tawny brown caps, and subtle blue bruising, is arguably the best-known and most widely used psychedelic mushroom in the world. When Dennis and Terrence McKenna published the...
An Amanita mushroom poisoning outbreak in California; A case report testing psilocybin for advanced Alzheimer’s disease
Happy Friday and welcome back to The Microdose, an independent journalism newsletter brought to you by the U.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
An Amanita mushroom poisoning outbreak in California
A May 28 report from the...
Dispatch from The Netherlands Part 2
Welcome back to The Microdose, an independent journalism newsletter brought to you by the U.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
After three packed days, my brain is buzzing from everything I’ve seen and heard here in Haarle...
Dispatch from The Netherlands
Welcome back to The Microdose, an independent journalism newsletter brought to you by the U.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
This Friday, I’m reporting to you from ICPR, the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Re...
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Journalist who reports on intersections between ecology and society for the Guardian, Grist, the New York Times, Atmos and more. Always on the lookout for climate solutions. Obsessed with fungi.
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Chloe Garcia Roberts is a poet and translator from the Spanish and Chinese. She is the author most recently of Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology. She works as deputy editor of Harvard Review and teaches poetry at MIT.
Robin writes and produces feature articles, documentaries, and podcasts on advances in science, health, medicine, and technology.
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