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Enthusiastic Donors Pony Up In Support Of Psychedelic Research, Harm Reduction Efforts
This article was written by David Carpenter and appeared on Forbes.com on Nov 18, 2019 As an increasing number of Americans embrace the use of mind-altering substances like psilocybin and MDMA to treat conditions such as depression, addiction and PTSD, so too are charitable benefactors stepping up to help fund groundbreaking psychedelic studies and efforts […]
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Lightning in a Bottle Promotes Harm Reduction For Festival Goers
By Mary Carreon Sasha Rodriguez was 15-years-old when she went to Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 2010. After a night of experimenting with dance music’s beloved molly (MDMA, or ecstasy), Rodriguez overdosed and died at a nearby hospital. The repercussions of the incident banned EDC from LA forever and placed […]
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6 Steps for Helping a Friend Through a Bad Psychedelic Trip
Originally posted on thump.vice.com:https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/6-steps-help-friend-bad-difficult-psychedelic-trip-music-festival-zendo-project In The Festival Harm Reduction Project series, we examine drug use at music festivals and clubs across the globe, and explore what artists, organizers, harm reductiongroups, and concert-goers are doing to make nightlife safer. Spend enough time at music festivals, and you’ll very likely encounter someone—be they a close friend or […]
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7 Ways To Help Someone Who’s Having A Bad Trip
Original Article By Rachel Sturtz on Refinery29: Learning about Psychedelic Harm Reduction Last month, I sat cross-legged on a plush, red pillow in a classroom at Boulder’s Naropa University and pretended that I, like the 18 other people in class, loved psychedelic drugs. We spent the first 10 minutes taking turns saying our names, two words […]
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Zendo in Rolling Stone Magazine
original article from Rolling Stone Magazine: Meet the People Who Want to Make It Safer to Take Drugs at Festivals Earlier this month, two teenage girls died at the HARD Summer music festival in Ponoma, California, reportedly from “suspected drug overdoses.” Less than two weeks earlier, an autopsy confirmed suspicions that Nicholas Austin Tom, a […]
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A Model for Working with Difficult Psychedelic Experiences at Events
This article was written by Brandy Doyle and appeared in the MAPS Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 2001) Holding the hand of a screaming man tied to a table in a medical tent, I realized that the situation felt less like psychedelic therapy than it did like a psychedelic Civil War hospital. On Labor Day […]
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Making Psychedelic Trips Safe — Even at Burning Man
Original Article from AlterNet: Making Psychedelic Trips Safe — Even at Burning Man [Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in August, 2013. The message remains potent as ever, as pychedelic harm reduction efforts continue and the Zendo project heads to Black Rock City for Burning Man again next week, so we have decided to give […]
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Zendo at Lightning In a Bottle
Original Article from the Huffington Post: This Music Festival Knows It Can’t Stop People From Doing Drugs, So It’s Trying To Keep Them Safe Instead The upcoming Lightning in a Bottle Music Festival, which starts Thursday in Bradley, California, is a drug-free event. But rather than pretend this label and any effort to enforce it will […]
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Zendo at Envision Festival
Original Article from Fest300: I Did “Psychedelic First Aid” at a Festival In Costa Rica It was some time after 2 am and I was sitting in front of a structure made of bamboo and cloth at Envision Festival in Costa Rica. It was warm enough that I was dressed in a tank top with a lightly glowing […]