Ethics
Essays on the ethical, legal, and cultural questions surrounding DMT, ayahuasca, ibogaine, and the wider psychedelic field. Drug policy and rescheduling in the UK, EU, and US; the integrity of clinical research and informed consent; traditional knowledge, indigenous rights, and the appropriation of plant-medicine traditions; access, equity, and the economics of psychedelic medicine. Written from a legal background — LLB; MSc Psychedelics, University of Exeter (2026)
Before the Molecule
The field's own meta-analysis found that therapy hours predict nothing in psychedelic trials. That is not a finding about therapy. It is a finding about the record.
The Sensitive Period
Two studies of psychedelics and new motherhood are underway. One raised $103 million. The other raised $3,200. They are not asking the same question.
Seventeen to One
The field has begun to suspect that preparation is doing some of the work. Its consensus reporting standard gives the preparatory phase a single item.
Before the First Dose
Twelve veterans with severe, treatment-resistant PTSD walked into a clinic in Ohio. Eleven weeks later, nine of them no longer met the diagnostic criteria for the condition that had, in most cases, defined a decade or more of their lives.
When Motherhood Feels Like a Trip: A Compelling Parallel That Hasn't Been Tested
A mother says psilocybin made her calmer, more patient, better at the job. A Harvard thesis says her brain and the mushroom may be working on the same territory. The parallel is real. What it means is not yet known.
The Root It Refused
In July 2026 the United States began paying to reopen the human ibogaine programme it walked away from thirty years ago. The science is real. The cardiac risk that stalled it is real.
The Room and the Record
There is a claim in psychedelic research that has been repeated for sixty years without being tied convincingly to a lasting biological measurement. It goes like this: the drug is not the whole story.
DMT an overview
From a forthcoming book — first chapter, free. ---