Joshua Kappel

Not all is bad news for psychedelics in Virginia. After House lawmakers stalled a bill for the medical use of psilocybin in severe mental health cases, an education and health subcommittee approved another bill calling for the state-level rescheduling of psilocybin and...

Legislators in seven U.S. states are introducing psychedelics bills as they seek to emulate measures that have been approved in Oregon and Colorado.  From state-regulated psychedelic therapy programs to the legalization of Schedule I substances, the spectrum is broad. We...

Part three of three-part series.  See previous stories:  Colorado's New Psychedelics Regulations: Co-Author Of The Bill Replies To Concerns Millennials Tipped The Scales In Colorado Voting, And Psychedelics Laws Are In Their Crosshairs Expert lawyer and Prop.122’s drafter and co...

Part two of a three-part series.  See previous story:  Millennials Tipped The Scales In Colorado Voting, And Psychedelics Laws Are In Their Crosshairs Colorado's approval of a measure decriminalizing the use, possession, gifting and cultivating of natural entheogenic plants...

(Part one of a three-part series) Colorado became the second US state to decriminalize psychedelics via an initiative that legalized psilocybin use at regulated centers under licensed facilitators’ supervision. The initiative also decriminalizes personal use, growing and...

As interest in psychedelics grows, the non-profit initiative titled Microdosing Collective has been launched to promote the regulated uses of psychedelics, supporting education around regulations to allow for legal, sub-perceptible microdosing for well-being purposes. The organization believes that...