by Grow Up Conference | Aug 24, 2023 | Media Partners, Psychedelic News Wire
Recent scientific interest in psychedelics as alternative mental health treatments has raised questions on the application of hallucinogens in treating athletes’ mental health. Following decades of federal criminalization, we have entered an age of looser drug policies and even drug reform that has facilitated the research of previously controlled psychedelic substances such as psilocybin, MDMA and LSD.
Although psychedelics are still controlled, more researchers are getting official approval to run studies and clinical trials testing the medical efficacy of psychedelics against various mental disorders. This research has revealed that psychedelic compounds can deliver significant long-term benefits against conditions such as treatment-resistant depression, eating disorders, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, especially when they are paired with talk therapy.
Toronto Blue Jays lead primary care physician and the assistant medical director at Mount Sinai Hospital’s Dovigi Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Clinic David Lawrence recently discussed the potential of using psychedelics to address mental health challenges in athletes. He recently published a study exploring the connection between psychedelics such as DMT and feeling strong feelings of connection and familiarity with otherworldly things, entities or places.
Lawrence said that while the study focuses on one specific aspect of the DMT psychedelic experience, psychedelics have generally exhibited efficacy in treating mental health issues that typically affect athletes. The high stakes involved in most professional sports cause immense mental strain on athletes, which can directly impact their performance, career trajectory and quality of life.
Data from the American College of Sports Medicine shows that around 35% of top athletes experience issues such as disordered eating, burnout, depression and anxiety. Sports injuries such as concussions and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries can also impact their overall well-being and contribute to poor mental health.
Noting the multitude of clinical trials and studies on the efficacy of psychedelics as mental health treatments, Lawrence posits that hallucinogens may help to alleviate issues such as anxiety, depression and PTSD that plague many athletes.
Disordered eating patterns are especially prevalent among professional athletes, Lawrence said, adding that they can be especially hard to treat. Prior studies have shown that psilocybin, the main psychoactive agent in magic mushrooms, may hold promise as an alternative treatment for eating disorders like anorexia.
However, he notes that researching psychedelics as alternative mental health treatments will come with many legal considerations as psychedelics are still outlawed in many jurisdictions. Integrating psychedelics into treatment protocols for professional athletes will also require the aid of professional sports organizations as many of them have also banned psychedelic use among athletes.
The work being done by for-profit companies such as Compass Pathways PLC (NASDAQ: CMPS) is likely to shed more light on which groups of people could benefit most from the psychedelic medicines being taken through the clinical development process.
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by Grow Up Conference | Aug 24, 2023 | Grow Opportunity, Media Partners
(Globe Newswire) Vancouver — Digicann Ventures Ltd., a company focused on the cannabis industry, announces that it recently completed the sale of a secured convertible note issued by Valo Therapeutics OY to an arm’s length third party for gross proceeds of CA$225,000.
Digicann had been holding the Valo Note as an investment since purchasing it on October 21, 2021. However, during the year ended December 31, 2022, and based on the best information available to it at the time, the Company impaired the Valo Note to $Nil. The Transaction is now closed and Digicann has updated its accounting for the Valo Note accordingly.
No consulting, broker or finder’s fees were paid or are to be paid in association with the Transaction.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 24, 2023 | Cannabis Prospect Magazine, Media Partners
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by Grow Up Conference | Aug 24, 2023 | Cannabis News Wire, Media Partners
Counterculture retail professionals, business executives, researchers, and industry leaders, are invited to attend Alternative Products Expo to be held in Las Vegas from September 14-16, 2023. Dedicated to promoting creativity, the much-awaited event will be focused on eco-friendly solutions and alternative products. The Expo is set to engage audiences with a wide range of unique and sustainable products that signify the latest trends and technological advancements.
The Expo aims to empower participants to make informed buying decisions while contributing to a progressive, more sustainable future. By showcasing a wide range of ethically sourced and environmentally friendly alternatives, the Expo is about creating a socially responsible community that aligns with technological innovations and sustainable best practices.
Alternative Products Expo will feature a diverse group of eco-conscious entrepreneurs, business leaders, and innovators, providing insights into the intricacies of sustainable products while enlightening attendees about market potential and current opportunities.
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Alternative Products Expo promises to provide an immersive experience through engaging workshops, enlightening exhibits, and best-in-class networking opportunities. Attendees will get a unique opportunity to meet industry leaders and learn from their experience spanning a range of industries, including renewable energy, vaping, beverages, and more.
Experience the blend of creativity and sustainability as top industry leaders showcase their collections. From fair trade practices to upcycled materials, the Expo will reveal unique, game-changing ideas that drive innovation in style. Business owners will exhibit their newest products, challenging the boundaries and redefining innovation.
Thought-provoking seminars and workshops will enable attendees to learn about the latest innovations in the alternative products industry, from zero-waste packaging to renewable energy solutions.
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by Grow Up Conference | Aug 24, 2023 | Media Partners, Stratcann
The University of British Columbia Vancouver campus is launching a new Biology of Cannabis course this year, starting in January 2024.
The three-credit course will serve as an entry point for students to better understand the “biological aspects of cannabis, including structure and function, photosynthesis, plant growth, specialized metabolites, neuroscience and the human endocannabinoid system, and applications for human use in medicine, consumer products and textiles.”
Taught by science education specialist Dr. Christine Goedhart, the course currently has a waitlist with 30 students already registered.
The course is one of several new undergraduate courses at UBC Faculty of Science.
“Adult use of cannabis became legal in Canada in 2018,” notes Goedhart. “Since then, cannabis has become more socially acceptable and increasingly integrated into mainstream cultural, social, health and economic institutions. As such, students will likely be coming into contact with cannabis at some point and will need to make informed decisions about how they choose to engage with it.”
The University of British Columbia (UBC) has a rich history of working with cannabis.
A researcher at the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre recently teamed up with a geneticist at a local cannabis research facility, Occo, owned by Aurora Cannabis, working to develop cannabis cultivars better suited to Canadian climates while addressing the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis production.
Jonathan Page, an adjunct professor in UBC’s Botany Department, was the first scientist to sequence the cannabis genome and helped launch Aurora’s Occo facility, where he was formerly the chief science officer.
Researchers like Page, UBC botanist Lacey Samuels, and Judith Booth have a history with the plant going back several years.
A recently published paper by Dr. Sam Livingston, a botanist at the University of British Columbia, identified the “hacks” that cannabis cells use to produce cannabinoids.
“For more than 40 years, everything that we thought about cannabis cells was inaccurate because it was based on dated electron microscopy,” says Livingston’s co-author, Dr. Lacey Samuels, a plant cell biologist at UBC. “This work defines how cannabis cells make their product. It’s a paradigm shift after many years, producing a new view of cannabinoid production. This work has been challenging, partly the result of legal prohibition, and also due to the fact that no protocol for the genetic transformation (engineering) of cannabis has been published.”
Another study published in 2022, led by Davi de Ferreyro Monticelli, a doctoral student in UBC’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, looked at the specifics behind the aromas associated with cannabis that arise from terpenes and volatile organic compounds. In a 2019 study published in The Plant Journal, UBC researchers took a closer look at glandular trichomes and their cannabinoid and terpene production.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 24, 2023 | Cannabis News Wire, Media Partners
A recent International Journal of Drug Policy study has found that U.S. states with medical marijuana programs have seen major reductions in health insurance premiums. Compared to states without legal medical marijuana, the study observed that people in states with medical marijuana are paying lower insurance premiums.
Analysis of 10 years’ worth of National Association of Insurance Commissioners private health insurance data revealed that once a state legalized medical marijuana sales, health insurance premiums “dropped dramatically.”
Although the premium reductions were modest after the implementation of medical marijuana laws, yearly health insurance premiums in states with medical marijuana markets fell by $1,663 seven years after implementation, $1,542 eight years later, and $1,626 nine years later.
The researchers noted that although the reduction in health insurance premiums typically did not start until seven years after medical marijuana implementation, states with such programs eventually saw a “significant and sizable reduction” in premiums. The scientists specifically looked at individual private health plans instead of Medicaid or employee-sponsored insurance plans.
In addition, the research team only considered states with medical cannabis markets and excluded any analysis from states with both medical and recreational markets while using states without medical cannabis markets or those that hadn’t implemented already-passed medical cannabis policies as controls. Interestingly, the team found that states which adopted medical marijuana early have seen declines in private health insurance premiums from years three through nine after implementation while mid-adopting states saw an attenuated effect on health insurance premiums after the third year of implementation.
Furthermore, the researchers said that the nature of community rating and insurance pooling made it so that the savings derived from medical marijuana legalizations benefitted both marijuana users and nonusers. Alluding to cannabis reform critics who said legalizing cannabis could potentially result in an increase in healthcare costs, the researchers said that concerns about cannabis reform increasing the burden on healthcare were unfounded.
America’s state-legal cannabis industry now stretches across dozens of states and grants millions of Americans access to medical cannabis. Many people use cannabis as an alternative to pharmaceuticals to treat conditions such as chronic pain, anxiety, and insomnia.
Furthermore, medical marijuana programs allow patients with one or more of more than 20 qualifying conditions to use medical cannabis, often as an alternative to prescription medications. The list cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, anorexia, severe nausea, chronic pain, glaucoma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), muscle spasms, appetite loss, multiple sclerosis (MS) and HIV/AIDS.
This research depicting reductions in health insurance premiums is testament to the medical potential that marijuana possesses. It is therefore no wonder that companies are focused on developing FDA-grade pharmaceutical formulations from marijuana in order to treat different conditions, such as chronic pain.
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by Grow Up Conference | Aug 23, 2023 | Media Partners, The New Agora
Know Your Narcissism
Overt & Covert Narcissism and
How Luciferian Spirits Feed Through the Narcissistic Wound
By BERNHARD GUENTHER
We are in an epidemic of narcissism, yet, at the same time, the topic of narcissism has also gotten distorted and misused on social media and pop psychology.
As Dr. Jonathan Shedler wrote:
“In the psychodynamic tradition from which the term “narcissism” arose, narcissistic personality styles exist at different levels on a continuum of health pathology:
at a healthier level (yes, there is healthy narcissism)
at a neurotic level of personality organization
at a more disturbed borderline level of personality organization
and at a still more disturbed psychotic level.
These distinctions are lost in pop culture descriptions that portray all narcissistic people as arrogant, self-inflated, and exploitive when that is not at all the case.
There are two main manifestations of the pathological narcissistic personality:
grandiose (or overt) narcissism
vulnerable (or covert) narcissism
Most people are aware of the overt/grandiose narcissist since it is more obvious.
People with grandiose or overt narcissism present as self-important, entitled, and superior. Their narcissistic defenses are generally effective in keeping their feelings of inadequacy at bay, at least most of the time.
Underneath the overt self-importance, however, lie deep feelings of fragility and inadequacy. The person works continually to shore up their fragile sense of self and makes use of others to support this effort. They need others as an audience to witness and affirm their importance.
In vulnerable or covert narcissism, in contrast, the narcissistic defenses against inadequacy fail. Rather than experiencing themselves as superior, people with covert narcissism experience themselves and come across to others as deflated, self-critical, and beaten down by life.
Although they often present symptoms of depression in clinical practice, they generally derive little benefit from treatments that specifically target these depressive symptoms. Beneath their suffering and self-criticism, clinicians often find that their inner life is dominated by fantasies of importance, success, and glory.
They are the main characters in their internal narratives –unappreciated, unrecognized, and denied their rightful place in the world. At different times, the same individual may present as either a grandiose or vulnerable narcissist, depending on how well their defenses are functioning at that point in time and how well the external world is cooperating with those defenses.”
Internet trolls and people constantly complaining on social media tend to be covert narcissists who also grapple with unconscious jealousy and envy, which results in shadow projection. Being stuck in victim/blame and “black-pilled” doom and gloom can also be an aspect of covert narcissism.
Both manifestations of narcissism lead to difficulties in developing and maintaining meaningful and lasting interpersonal connections. Ultimately, the person’s life feels painfully empty.
Both manifestations of narcissism (which manifest on a scale and different levels) have become normalized in today’s cult-ure.
If we’re really honest with ourselves, we can see parts of them in ourselves, too, that we act out unconsciously or that may pop up when we are disconnected from essence.
I would say that most people suffer from covert narcissism and don’t recognize it as such due to childhood wounding, which they may not be aware of because it may have happened pre-verbal or the abuse has become normalized and justified.
From Rudolf Steiner’s perspective, Lucerferian spirits are attracted to, feed off, and live in selfish, vain, grandiose, or hurt feelings [needing to “be respected”], self-pity (poor me), and self-importance – aspects of both types of pathological narcissism. In other words, they feed through the narcissistic wound.
From a psychological trauma perspective, all narcissism is the result of trauma and childhood wounding (karma and past lives may tie into it as well), mostly from the age of 0-7 when the necessary needs of the infant/young child were not met by the parents due to their emotional immaturity, unavailability, outdated abusive authoritative parenting (spanking, punishment, screaming at the child, shaming, letting the child cry out alone, etc.), or because of the narcissism of the parent, who were (or one of them) trying to get their needs met through the child (emotional incest)
It’s way more common than most people are aware of. In my experience, everyone is narcissistically wounded to varying degrees (hence the development of the false personality mask) because no parents are perfect (yet, some were “good enough” so the narcissistic wound is not that severe and doesn’t run one’s life unconsciously)
The work is to re-parent oneself, free the suppressed toxic shame and other suppressed emotions of emotional pain, abandonment, inadequacy, and insecurity (FEEL them without projecting them externally), purify them, and bring forth essence – the true Self.
The only way out is through. Anything else is just avoidance and masking it up and looking for endless supply externally to feed the narcissistic wound [and the Luciferian occult spirits.]
The other trap, of course, is spiritual bypassing, which is very easy for the narcissistically wounded individual to do; hence, a lot of overt/covert narcissists are in the New Age, spiritual and religious circles, over-estimating their level of being and awareness.
For more on that topic, listen to our podcast episode:
– Dark Triad Personality Types And Occult Forces
And our podcast on how to work with toxic internalized shame:
– How To Heal Toxic Shame And Not Feeling “Good Enough”
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