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Amanda Feilding Interviewed In New Statesman

September 20, 2012 Beckley in the Media

Amanda Feilding, Director of the Beckley Foundation, on what’s wrong with our drug laws – and how magic mushrooms might help treat depression.

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Channel 4 To Televise The Beckley Foundation Imperial College MDMA Trials

September 17, 2012 Beckley Science in the Media

Channel 4 To Televise The Beckley Foundation Imperial College MDMA Trials Photograph Courtesey of Channel 4 Renegade Pictures ‘It is thought to have 500,000 users in the UK, yet research into MDMA – the main ingredient in ecstasy – has been minimal.  The programme will show several volunteers (including actor Keith Allen and writer Lionel [...]

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Beckley Foundation Inagurated at Guatemalan Palace

July 5, 2012 Beckley Foundation in Guatemala

President Otto Pérez Molina has launched our Latin American Chapter in Guatemala at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace, in the presence of senior members of the Government and Judiciary. The President also signed our Public Letter calling for an end to the War on Drugs (photo). He is the first incumbent Head of Government [...]

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President Otto Pérez Molina Launches Beckley Foundation in Guatemala

July 2, 2012 Beckley Foundation in Guatemala

President of Guatemala: War on Drugs has Failed Pérez launches Beckley Foundation Guatemala and signs Beckley Public Letter July 2012 The Beckley Foundation is launching in Guatemala at the invitation of President Otto Pérez Molina, in order to assist in the development of new and more effective drug policies. The President will sign the Beckley [...]

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Guatemala’s president urges debate on drug legalisation

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25 March 2012 BBC News Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has said the war on drugs has failed, and it is time to end the “taboo” on discussing decriminalisation. He was addressing a Central American summit in the Guatemalan city of Antigua. Mr Perez Molina convoked the meeting to consider decriminalisation as a way of [...]

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Guardian/Mixmag drug survey reveals a generation happy to chance it

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Data shows predominantly white, educated and relatively healthy users willing to take significant risks with their health. Alexandra Topping, The Guardian, Thursday 15 March 2012 “My daily life is sensible, regimented and very stressful, so at the weekend I want the complete opposite,” explained James, a financial broker. “When I go out, the last thing I [...]

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The Beckley Foundation: REWRITING THE UN DRUG CONVENTIONS

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Click the LINK below for full PDF Document BF_Rewriting UN Conv-summary (1)

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The drug laws are counter-productive, and David Cameron knows it

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David Cameron knows the drug laws aren’t working; his failure to change them is simple cowardice Tom Chivers, February 15 2012 Let’s play a game of make-believe. Pretend you’re a Home Office minister. One of your European neighbours employs a radical public health policy and, 10 years later, has seen huge improvements in the measurements [...]

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Magic mushrooms, international law and the failed ‘war on drugs’, Amanda Feilding

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 Recent research suggesting potential therapeutic benefits of psilocybin focuses attention on the need to reform drug laws It’s been a busy fortnight. First the publication of two major peer-reviewed research papers about magic mushrooms that attracted worldwide publicity. Then off to Prague for an international drugs policy symposium. And just last week, news of a [...]

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Mind-altering drugs research call from Prof David Nutt

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The Beckley Foundation/Imperial College Psychedelic Research Programme has breaking news on the action of psychedelics.  The series of psilocybin studies started by Amanda Feilding, David Nutt and Robin Carhart-Harris in 2009, is bearing valuable fruit. A new paper to be published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) demonstrates how psilocybin [...]

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