And as I highlighted in green in this image, indigenous lands and knowledge are fundamental for implementing some key solutions.
According to the @IPCC_CH summary (p31): #Cooperation, and inclusive decision making, with #IndigenousPeoples and local communities, as well as recognition of inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples, is integral to successful adaptation and #mitigation across forests and ecosystems
What's more, it's up to #us responsible adults in #THISDECADE, to take action which will impact livelihood for centuries. We are the first, and last, who can #act.
The task? Cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2035, preserve and restore ecosystems and biodiversity.
So one of the biggest challenges is to protect indigenous territories and the #abundance of biodiversity they care for
And what do #psychedelic drugs have to do with this?
EVERYTHING.
This biotechnology field, foreseen to soon reach billions of dollars, is predicated on sacred indigenous gatekeeping of practices persecuted and prohibited for centuries.
The huge opportunity to be built?
Directing ๐ฐ resources from the psychedelic biotech industry's patented compounds, based on indigenous knowledge, to an international, cooperative, indigenous-led land protection and restoration fund.
How?!? BIG Q, needs a big answer to be collectively built!
But three widely adhered international treaties are a place to start: ILO-169, cbd.int and the Nagoya Protocol.
Failing to do so can forever mark our current generations for lack of responsibility and maturity regarding the extreme threat to mental and physical health posed by the climate emergency, for which no ammount of pills and therapy will ever be enough.
Time to act is NOW โฒ๏ธ, and developing new treatments is necessary, but not sufficient.
There is HUGE potential for #prevention as well, through psychedelic resource allocation for indigenous rights and climate change mitigation!
This week #psychedelics, almost completely ignored by western science and medicine in the last quarter of the 20th century, made it to the top of ๐บ๐ธ healthcare, the @NIH:
4k folks ๐ 21 time zones
+10h of talks
Panelists from
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๐จ๐ฆ 1
๐ฎ๐ฑ 1
๐ฉ๐ฐ 1
๐ฌ๐ง 1
๐ณ๐ฟ 1
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๐งต summary ๐
Agenda comprised 3 main themes:
Basic and translational research ๐๐ฌ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐จโ๐ฌ๐งฎ๐ป
Clinical trials ๐ฉโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐จโโ๏ธ๐คฎ๐๐ค๐
Optimising future trial designs ๐พ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐
Here are my remarks from 20y experience:
This is a good landmark to claim psychedelic science finally achieved maturity
Basic research is evolving rapidly and public funding ๐ฐis what is needed to transform the field
Clinical trials suggest transdiagnostic safety and efficacy
Third and last session of #psychedelics@NIH ๐บ๐ฒ workshop starting now, looking at how to optimize clinical trials design and how to get these treatments approved ๐งต
Starting with Ido @hartogsohn ๐ฎ๐ฑ on psychedelic set and setting theory
Important Q โ
Do we have an (excessively) costly and complicated drug regulation apparatus?
Overcoming #EpistemicInjustices in the biomedical study of #ayahuasca: Towards #ethical and sustainable #regulation. New paper for โCultural context and ethical issues in the therapeutic use of psychedelicsโ special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry ๐งต1/
We (me and non-tweeter ๐ง๐ท PhD lawyer Konstantin Gerber) reviewed 4 decades of biomedical research about the sacred and ancient vine of the Amazon, documenting how biomedicine systematically commits a specific kind of injustice: against indigenous people as givers of knowledge. 2/
The powerful concept of epistemic injustice was introduced 15 years ago by Miranda Fricker (University of Oxford) and greatly helped us frame and analyse some past and current trends in ayahuasca research, which is also important to psychedelic science in general. 3/