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Dec 25, 2024 | 
doubleblindmag.com | Patrick McConnell
The identity of Lizard King remains unknown, although over years of activity at Shroomery LK has shared pictures of hunting expeditions, opening a dredging business, having a room in his house dedicated to bearded dragons, car accidents, and legal troubles. “I am the Lizard King, I can do anything,” sang Jim Morrison in The Doors song “Not to Touch The Earth.” Lizard King became part of Morrison’s legacy forged in an era of psychedelic revolution and expression.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
doubleblindmag.com | Patrick McConnell
Table of Contents It’s not hard to see parallels between Star Wars and psychedelics: Jedi struggle to master the force, a mysterious power that can heal, inspire insights about oneself, and reveal the interconnectedness of all things. The force can cause harm or be used for control, as well.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
doubleblindmag.com | Patrick McConnell
Using drugs to fight wars isn’t new. Headlines today focus on soldiers healing from PTSD with compounds like MDMA, but mixing substances and combat is something of a tradition: Between Arabs with hashish, Nazis on methamphetamines, and the United States military’s Go pills (Modafinil), the history of psychoactive drugs is entwined in much more than mind-expanding recreation.
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May 14, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Olivia L Mooren |Patrick McConnell |James D DeBrecht |Anshuman Jaysingh
AbstractActin polymerization is often associated with membrane proteins containing capping-protein-interacting (CPI) motifs, such as CARMIL, CD2AP, and WASHCAP/Fam21. CPI motifs bind directly to actin capping protein (CP), and this interaction weakens the binding of CP to barbed ends of actin filaments, lessening the ability of CP to functionally cap those ends. The protein V-1 / myotrophin binds to the F-actin binding site on CP and sterically blocks CP from binding barbed ends.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
doubleblindmag.com | Patrick McConnell
In 1955, inside a tiny adobe house with a thatch roof, Mazatec curandera Maria Sabina shared psilocybin mushrooms with Gordon Wasson, a banker who would later popularize magic mushrooms in the Western World. It all went down in Huautla de Jiménez, a town of a few thousand high in the Sierra Madre mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Forty years later, Psilocybe cubensis from the nearby pastures was collected, and the “Huautla” mushroom strain entered the online mushroom market.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
doubleblindmag.com | Patrick McConnell
Table of Contents Louisiana isn’t the most psychedelic place in America, with laws banning more psychoactive substances than anywhere else in America. However, the state is also home to Acadian Coast, a variety of Psilocybe cubensis, a psilocybin-containing mushroom. The Acadian Coast strain is a rarity—it’s not winning competitions or going viral due to its mesmerizing effects or unique morphology. It resembles many other cubensis varieties, with classic cream-colored stems and warm caramel caps.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
omfif.org | Patrick McConnell
It is often repeated that the key attribute of a central bank digital currency is that it is as ‘safe’ as cash. Central banks, as agents of government, therefore argue that they should issue CBDCs to provide that safety for their citizens. Central banks around the world, such as the European Central Bank, have created models for issuing CBDCs on the basis of this core premise.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
doubleblindmag.com | Patrick McConnell
Table of Contents “It’s a healing of the body and soul,” says Hortimio. He’s talking about yopo, a mixture of Amazonian plants traditionally used as snuff. Hortimio is a Piaroacommunity leader and land defender in his thirties. He lives far outside of cell service. We’ve been playing a game of telephone for weeks when he suddenly answers his phone on his motorbike en route to the hospital with his ten-month-old daughter.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
doubleblindmag.com | Patrick McConnell
Commonly known as zacatechichi in Mexican markets, the leaves and flowers of the Calea zacatechichi plant are now becoming a common herb in online shops. While psychonauts online use the leaves to attempt to induce lucid dreams, in Mexico, the plant remains part of traditional medicine for curanderos, treating everything from hangovers to diabetes.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
doubleblindmag.com | Patrick McConnell
*This article is sponsored by Magi Ancestral Supplements. Psychoactive plants bridge, be it the spirit world or distant cultures. The plants and their effects aren’t limited by boundaries: Just as consuming them can blend one reality with another, the plants travel the world, crossing borders with the humans that carry them. Yet, the stories and meanings of these plants change from place to place, era to era. Sometimes, their history is nearly forgotten.
