Zoë Dubus
@zoe-dubus.bsky.social
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English account ! French PhD in history of medicine. Post-doc at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Psychotropic drugs, psychedelics, medicine, 19th - 21st centuries. Totally woke Website: https://dubuszoe.wordpress.com
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Strange slowdown in psilocybin treatment approvals in Canada, for no apparent reason. To date, 304 patients have received it since 2022, mainly for depression or anxiety related to the end of life.

Article in French (with a link to the original article in Nature): www.lapresse.ca/actualites/s...
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✨New Article✨
With the amazing @alexdymock.bsky.social for the @chacruna.bsky.social 💛
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A great event and a GREAT poster 😆👌☮️
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🍄The first symposium of the Psychedelic Medicine section of AFPBN will be held in Paris on June 5, and here's the program!

Information and registration: www.afpbn.org/1st-national...
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Unfortunately, Michaux didn't consume psychedelics under the right conditions. The context in France at the time was VERY FAR from questions of set and setting, and the experience was therefore always rather negative for him. It's important to know this background to better understand his work 🤗
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The Courtauld Gallery in London is staging an exhibition featuring drawings by French poet Henri Michaux, made under the influence of mescaline in the 1960s 🤩 If, like me, you can't go, there's the catalog to console yourself: www.paulholberton.com/product-page... 🩵
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With English subtitles availables 🤗♥️
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🌿Histoire du cannabis médical en France !🌿
Domestiqué dès l’âge de Fer (au moins), sorti de la pharmacopée en 1953 et qui n’en finit pas d’être réhabilité avec un retard dramatique pour les patient·es, voilà une histoire particulièrement riche !
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Histoire du cannabis médical en France
YouTube video by Dr Zoë Dubus
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🔞Article🔥
Back in the 50s and 60s, questions of medical ethics were still in their infancy. In this context, women were particularly involved in exploring the therapeutic potential of physical contact when using psychedelics. Learn more in free access: hal.science/hal-04799496v1
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"La Bretagne pittoresque" in which hemp was grown, as it was everywhere else in France at the time ✨

Postcard preserved at the Musée de Baud
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have an account of their experience, but according to Anais Nin it was great 🤗Janiger was also one of the first Westerners to study the effects of DMT. In particular, he administered it to the poet Allan Watts, known in these circles for talking non-stop for hours on end under LSD or psilocybin... 😆
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if I'm allowed to share this with you 🤭I went to their Wikipedia page and there's no mention of this experience ^^). The man's a bit exhausted he only slept two hours, but he's enthusiastic, looking to see what LSD can do for him as an artist. The woman says she's a little more worried. I don't
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her home (yes, there was no control at all at the time over the substance). So here we have the information sheets just before taking the product. The woman is 33, the man 38, they are both GREAT composers of electro music, pioneers in the field (I've anonymized, I don't know
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I've received two new archives from the son of Oscar Janiger, the Californian psychiatrist who gave LSD to almost 1,000 people in the 1950s, including Cary Grant and Anais Nin. The latter was so interested in his experience that she asked Janiger to give her LSD to give to a couple of friends, at
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A great opportunity to do a PhD in France on the history of mental health in the 20th century. @dicopolhis.bsky.social

Two requirements: hold a Master's degree, not have lived in France for more than one year in the last 3 years
Full details can be found here: amethis.doctorat.org/amethis-clie...
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‼️Unique opportunity to teach psychedelics at the University of Ottawa in @drmonnica.bsky.social ‘s program, they're looking for a French speaker (and obviously bilingual in English)‼️ This is an exceptional position 💫

To apply: uottawa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/fr-CA/uOttaw...
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My classroom for this week of classes at SciencesPo Menton, in France. This is the 5th year and I still can't get over it ^^
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Yale University organizes a conference on the structural racism of the "War on Drugs".
It's free:
yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Very happy to see this article with @alexdymock.bsky.social read and appreciated!

The open access link is here: mh.bmj.com/content/medh...
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✨New article✨

The use of psychedelics can generate multiple effects related to pleasure, desire, sensuality and sexuality. With @alexdymock.bsky.social, we analyze how current scientific studies are looking at this subject and what the limitations of this work are
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Oui je connais, je dois faire un thread sur le sujet d’ailleurs parce que j’ai des archives que n’a pas Arte 😉 Mais merci !
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and economically disadvantaged, culturally marginalised, and racially minoritised populations, further encumbering these groups with criminal records. If the purpose of drug policy is to reduce health and social harms, we have severely botched our response. We must drastically