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Decolonizing Psychedelic Research: Frameworks and Practices

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Decolonizing Psychedelic Research: Frameworks and Practices

Objectives

Understand the history of bioprospecting and biopiracy in psychedelic plant medicines
Apply the Nagoya Protocol framework to psychedelic pharmaceutical development
Distinguish cognitive liberty arguments from indigenous rights arguments
Evaluate current business models (stewardship, FPIC, reciprocity) against historical patterns
Understand the entourage effect as a pharmacological expression of indigenous knowledge

Outline

Part 1: The Pattern: Quinine to curare to psilocybin. How bioprospecting works. The María Sabina case in detail.

Part 2: The Legal Frameworks: Nagoya Protocol. FPIC. Native American Church exemptions. The cognitive liberty argument and its limits.

Part 3: Current Business Models: Journey Colab's stewardship model. North Star Ethics Pledge. The Navajo opposition to peyote decriminalization. What "reciprocity" means in practice.

Part 4: The Pharmacological Argument: María Sabina's verdict on synthetic psilocybin. The entourage effect. Why isolated compounds may not capture the full therapeutic picture.

Required reading

Gregoire, NEO.LIFE (2020)
Schultes, NIMH Symposium (1967)
Labate & Cavnar, Therapeutic Use of Ayahuasca (2014)

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