History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
October 1, 2023
Ido Hartogsohn
9 citations
Abstract The term “corporadelic” signifies “manifesting corporate structures, ethos, or logic within the context of the psychedelic landscape.” It points to a relatively novel phenomena in the history of psychedelics: the appropriation of these psychoactive agents by for-profit corporations and the integration of psychedelic use into corporate setting. Set and setting is a fundamental concept...
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
October 1, 2023
Keith Williams, Suzanne Brant
7 citations
Abstract Indigenous people have been stewards of sacred plant medicines for millennia. Many of these sacred medicines—such as tobacco, cedar, sage, sweetgrass, and more recently the ayahuasca admixture and psilocybin-containing fungi—have been commercialized via their entry into the global capitalist economy. In this article, we offer readers an introduction to Indigenous gift logic as an...
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
October 1, 2023
Patrick Elf, Amy Isham, Dario Leoni
6 citations
Abstract Much has been written in the academic and popular press on the positive consequences of psychedelic-induced mental states. Following the disappearance of psychedelic research from the public eye between the 1970s and early 2000s, a second wave of psychedelic research is gaining increasing interest from private sector actors looking to explore commercial opportunities. The...
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
October 1, 2023
Shahin Shams, Amanda Rose Pratt, Sisi Li et al.
4 citations
Abstract The resurgence of mainstream psychedelic research has spurred a capitalist interest in patenting to exclude competitors from producing, using, or selling psychedelic technology. Some exploit the patenting process to monopolize well-established psychedelic knowledge with overly broad claims. If patent examiners find evidence, known as “prior art,” showing that what is claimed is known,...
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
October 1, 2023
Brian P. Pace, Neşe Devenot
2 citations
The medicalization and commercialization of psychedelics stand to profit by drawing distinction and distance between their project and the contentious history of underground psychedelic use and culture. This serves at least two functions. First, by jettisoning countercultural baggage, psychedelic advocates signal a nonthreatening stance toward the power structures that enact and maintain the...
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
October 1, 2023
Matthew J. Baggott
2 citations
Abstract In 1967, a synthetic psychedelic drug, nicknamed STP, escaped from the archives of Dow Chemical and flooded the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. The resulting public health crisis can be seen as a case study in how new unsanctioned psychoactive substances become legible to society through the efforts of different actors. STP was interpreted by young hip doctors,...
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
2022
Sara V. Press
1 citation
In 1986, American scientist and entrepreneur Loren Miller received Plant Patent No. 5, 751 on a “novel” strain of the ayahuasca plant, which he named “Da Vine.” Indigenous tribes and healers had been using ayahuasca for hundreds of years before it was brought into Western culture. Miller’s accepted claim to novelty, however, was founded on this particular strain’s color and medicinal...
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
2019
Robert Dickins
Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul Bisbee, Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, James Sexton, and James W. Spark, eds., Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018; 728 pp; 10 b&w images; ISBN: 9780773555068; cloth;