PTSD

As the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference returns to Miami (April 11-12) bringing together top CEOs, investors, leaders, advocates and politicians, let's scroll through the latest regulatory changes in the space. Arizona Veterans To Get Free Medical Marijuana Cards Thanks To Senate...

In Texas, veterans are working to protect the state’s hemp market while lawmakers seek to limit access to delta-8 and other edibles hemp products. Delta-8 THC, a chemical component of the cannabis plant, occurs naturally in very small concentrations. It can produce a mild...

The legendary non-profit’s private arm, MAPS Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PBC), announced that Frontiers in Psychiatry has published its first functional neuroimaging study evaluating how MDMA-assisted therapy works in people with PTSD. The MAPS study aimed at assessing how MDMA...

MAPS Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PBC), the non-profit’s private biopharma leg developing psychedelic medicines, announced positive results from MAPP2, the company’s second Phase 3 study assessing MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD.  "The Phase 3 confirmatory results support...

What a year for psychedelics! It feels like we’ve come a long way since the sector explode in 2019-2020, the launch of Benzinga's Psyched, companies’ massive migration from private to public, MAPS’ initiation of Phase 3 MDMA trials, the surge of the psilocybin wave,...

Congress left marijuana banking reform out of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday. However, a statement that accompanied a must-pass defense bill includes several drug policy reform components, with one of them revolving around the potential of “plant-based therapies...

Kurt Vonnegut, who would be 100 years old today, never liked the name Veterans Day. He preferred to call it Armistice Day, which marked the end of WWI, a day of peace when an armistice preceded a peace treaty…"a moment," Vonnegut wrote, "when armies stop killing...

NightWare, a "digital therapeutic system" that works in conjunction with Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) smartwatch and iPhone, is helping veterans and active service members who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, deal with nightmares and get a good night’s...

(Part three of a four-part series) As for ketamine-assisted therapy, biotech psychedelics company Awakn Life Sciences (OTC: AWAKNF) offers two distinct protocols. One is called KARE (Ketamine in the Reduction of Alcoholic Relapse) and is specific to alcohol use disorder, while the other, KAP (...

With roughly 60 million Americans suffering from sleep disorders, many are turning to medical cannabis to solve the problem. To that end, a team of Israeli researchers has examined whether cannabis can help those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sleep better. A new study in the ...

In recent months, the psychedelics space has been ground for increasing collaborations. In some cases it was to advance scientific studies. In others, to offer psychedelic medicine, therapy training and clinical retreats.   This time, a partnership has been set between Sunstone...

Psychedelic medicine is an issue increasingly visited by lawmakers, clinicians, researchers, patients and advocates at local, state and federal levels.  This week, House Committees in both Missouri and Georgia heard testimony from varied sources on the potential therapeutic effect of...

New research has shown that low doses of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) can help treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Published in Neuropharmacology earlier this month, the study revealed that the primary psychoactive component of cannabis could help with a range of emotional responses...

The push to legalize psychedelics in more states may have gotten a new public supporter, with the world’s richest man sharing his thoughts and opinions on the benefits. What Happened: Musk has made several comments on Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) in reference to supporting psychedelics for...

Following Wednesday's House approval of two psychedelics research amendments, another package of bills, including banking and veterans'   access were approved, bringing the total to nine drug policy measures passed in the chamber as part of the National...