Exciting to see the update in that post that some studies of LSD/tryptamines and cluster headaches are underway! Tragic as always that medical approval is so slow, and experimentation in all aspects of society is generally so under-supplied.
It seems like psilocybin is thought to have similar effects? Since that has already been legalized for medical use in Oregon, I could imagine setting up a small business or medical practice there to promote psilocybin as a cluster-headache cure (if it actually works, of course). I imagine that the obstacle here is that psilocybin is only approved for certain medical uses—PTSD, end-of-life care—and cannot be prescribed off-label for cluster headaches. But maybe it’s a doable plan, or perhaps Oregon legislators could be convinced to tweak the regulations? (The fact that Oregon has legalized psilocybin might also be a good reason to do a cheaper and more concentrated facebook ad campaign, aimed specifically at cluster-headache sufferers in Oregon, or maybe just in Portland to recruit for a specific project/business.)
Are there any nations where DMT or other tryptamines are legal? Surely in Peru or Brazil, which allow ayahuasca? Building up the evidence base with studies in those countries (and maybe even rolling it out as a standard treatment for cluster headaches there) might help to accelerate the process of approval here in the USA and other nations.
How different does a “DMT vape pen” have to be from existing vaping devices? Could this become a grey-market smoke-shop-style product in the USA, where some renegade scientist-entrepreneur sells you everything you need except the psychedelics? (Not sure if this would be a good or bad thing to try, wouldn’t want to provoke regulators’ wrath and set the field back… but maybe with more thought this idea could turn into a more promising plan.)
Exciting to see the update in that post that some studies of LSD/tryptamines and cluster headaches are underway! Tragic as always that medical approval is so slow, and experimentation in all aspects of society is generally so under-supplied.
It seems like psilocybin is thought to have similar effects? Since that has already been legalized for medical use in Oregon, I could imagine setting up a small business or medical practice there to promote psilocybin as a cluster-headache cure (if it actually works, of course). I imagine that the obstacle here is that psilocybin is only approved for certain medical uses—PTSD, end-of-life care—and cannot be prescribed off-label for cluster headaches. But maybe it’s a doable plan, or perhaps Oregon legislators could be convinced to tweak the regulations? (The fact that Oregon has legalized psilocybin might also be a good reason to do a cheaper and more concentrated facebook ad campaign, aimed specifically at cluster-headache sufferers in Oregon, or maybe just in Portland to recruit for a specific project/business.)
Are there any nations where DMT or other tryptamines are legal? Surely in Peru or Brazil, which allow ayahuasca? Building up the evidence base with studies in those countries (and maybe even rolling it out as a standard treatment for cluster headaches there) might help to accelerate the process of approval here in the USA and other nations.
How different does a “DMT vape pen” have to be from existing vaping devices? Could this become a grey-market smoke-shop-style product in the USA, where some renegade scientist-entrepreneur sells you everything you need except the psychedelics? (Not sure if this would be a good or bad thing to try, wouldn’t want to provoke regulators’ wrath and set the field back… but maybe with more thought this idea could turn into a more promising plan.)