DMTweet: a psychedelic tweet recap

a PsyMed Ventures x Business Trip colab (issue #9)

DMTweet is a newsletter of psychedelic tweets that catch our eye 👀.

This is a collaboration between PsyMed Ventures and Business Trip (yes, we’re the folks working on both 🙃).

Tweets include: Industry updates 💼, Therapy 🛋️, Psychedelic research 🧪, Neuroscience 🧠, Consciousness ✨, Indigenous reciprocity ⚖️, Regulatory updates 📜, and Trippy ideas 👽.

Inclusion = interesting ≠ endorsement.

Let’s get to it….

Julie Holland, MD @BellevueDoc

As a psychiatrist, when I see a vague cause of death like "complications from an ongoing illness," you may see Covid, but I see suicide. Just a guess, of course, but more obituaries than ever are skirting the truth. People should be know what an epidemic it is.

Andrés Gómez Emilsson @algekalipso

A non-neurotoxic version of MDMA that you could take every day like coffee would represent, not only a watershed moment for *human wellbeing*, but also, perhaps less intuitively, it would entail a breakthrough in *human coordination*.

Ido Hartogsohn @hartogsohn

One highly intriguing aspect that's been completely overlooked in the current psychedelic resurgence is changes in subjective experience of heat/cold and the correspondence to altered states of consciousness. (short thread)

PsyMed Ventures @PsymedVentures

Psychedelic medicine is an ancient technology. Yet, we believe that modern technologies like VR and neurotech will play a big role in enabling psychedelic therapy to be more effective & affordable. Here are 6 technologies that will improve psychedelic therapy:

Paul Stamets @PaulStamets

Major announcement! Our newest paper on microdosing with psilocybin, which also highlights The Stack, has officially been released. Thank you for the feature @NaturePortfolio!

nature.comPsilocybin microdosers demonstrate greater observed improvements in mood and mental health at one month relative to non-microdosing control…Scientific Reports - Psilocybin microdosers demonstrate greater observed improvements in mood and mental health at one month relative to non-microdosing controls

and a strong reply to the above study ⬇

Thomas Varley @ThosVarley

This needs to stop - another un-blinded, no-placebo study of micro-dosers (recruited from psychedelic events(!) found that (surprise surprise) micro-dosing is awesome... Just ignore that incredibly long ethics/competing interest declaration at the end...

nature.comPsilocybin microdosers demonstrate greater observed improvements in mood and mental health at one month relative to non-microdosing control…Scientific Reports - Psilocybin microdosers demonstrate greater observed improvements in mood and mental health at one month relative to non-microdosing controls

Imran Khan @imrankhan

People are ditching the Latter Day Saints for modern-day psilocybin. @cassadyariel reports 👇🏾 rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

rollingstone.comThese Mormons Have Found a New Faith -- in Magic MushroomsWorshippers are leaving the Church of Latter-day Saints in record numbers, and some are finding solace with an apostate band of psilocybin-loving spiritual explorers looking for God — one trip at a…

Deep Note @1DeepNote

5️⃣Top Books for “Mental Health” 1. The Body Keeps the Score

Nick @nickcammarata

@utotranslucence the most thoughtful “psychonauts” I know tend to go from an interest psychoactive drugs to an interest in psychology / emotions to meditation and end up stop using substances altogether without ever explicitly deciding to do so they’re often a gateway drug to no more drugs

Not4pfStu @stuyorkwrldtour

it’s raining ketamine in New York rn

ultrafeel @ultrafeel

"Where we really want to be is naked, singing in the rainforest, stoned and exalted – one with the souls of the ancestors, one with the gaian spirit of the planet." (Terence McKenna)

Until next time,

Greg, Matias, and Dina

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DMTweet is a collab between PsyMed Ventures and Business Trip. PsyMed Ventures is a community-focused fund and syndicate investing in psychedelic medicine and mental health tech. Business Trip is a podcast about psychedelic entrepreneurship. Our mission is to help expand access to psychedelic medicine and mental health.