{"id":15849,"date":"2024-12-24T23:44:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T23:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15849"},"modified":"2024-12-24T23:44:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T23:44:48","slug":"a-psychedelic-ban-would-disrupt-important-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15849","title":{"rendered":"A Psychedelic Ban Would Disrupt Important Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;The DEA&#8217;s attempt to classify DOI, a compound of great significance to both psychedelic and fundamental serotonin research, as a Schedule I substance exemplifies an administrative agency overstepping its bounds,&#8221; Rush&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/SSDP-press-release-7-23-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a>. &#8220;The government admits DOI is not being diverted for use outside of scientific research yet insists on placing this substance in such a restricted class that it will disrupt virtually all current research.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SSDP&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/SSDP-press-release-7-23-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describes<\/a>&nbsp;the two compounds as &#8220;essential research chemicals in pre-clinical psychiatry and neurobiology,&#8221; noting that their unscheduled status has made them accessible as tools for studying serotonin receptors. It says DOI, in particular, has been &#8220;a cornerstone in neuroscience research&#8221; due to its selectivity for the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor, crucial for understanding the therapeutic effects of psychedelics. Scientists have used DOI to &#8220;map the localization of an important serotonin receptor in the brain critical in learning, memory, and psychiatric disease,&#8221; SSDP notes, and DOI studies &#8220;have shown encouraging results in managing pain and reducing opioid cravings.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/11\/09\/a-psychedelic-ban-would-disrupt-important-research\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/11\/09\/a-psychedelic-ban-would-disrupt-important-research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;The DEA&#8217;s attempt to classify DOI, a compound of great significance to both psychedelic and fundamental serotonin research, as a Schedule I substance exemplifies an administrative agency overstepping its bounds,&#8221; Rush says. &#8220;The government admits DOI is not being diverted for use outside of scientific research yet insists on placing this substance in such a restricted class that it will disrupt virtually all current research.&#8221;<br \/>\nSSDP describes the two compounds as &#8220;essential research chemicals in pre-clinical psychiatry and neurobiology,&#8221; noting that their unscheduled status has made them accessible as tools for studying serotonin receptors. It says DOI, in particular, has been &#8220;a cornerstone in neuroscience research&#8221; due to its selectivity for the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor, crucial for understanding the therapeutic effects of psychedelics. Scientists have used DOI to &#8220;map the localization of an important serotonin receptor in the brain critical in learning, memory, and psychiatric disease,&#8221; SSDP notes, and DOI studies &#8220;have shown encouraging results in managing pain and reducing opioid cravings.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/11\/09\/a-psychedelic-ban-would-disrupt-important-research\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[321,439,1337,1757,870,811],"class_list":["post-15849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ban","tag-drugs","tag-prohibition","tag-psychedelics","tag-research","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15850,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions\/15850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}