Betty Aldworth
@bettyondrugs.bsky.social
Post-prohibition strategy, writing, &c. at maps.org to change everything about how we think about drugs and people who use them.
I'm humbled by -- and grateful for -- the support Ismail and I received from the team and community with this news. And honestly, I couldn't ask for a better partner in this evolution of the work than Izzy.
MAPS is honored to have Ismail Ali and Betty Aldworth step in as interim co-executive directors!
Learn more:
maps.org/2025/02/12/maps-announces-search-for-new-executive-director-as-it-doubles-down-on-advocacy-and-movement-building/
Learn more:
maps.org/2025/02/12/maps-announces-search-for-new-executive-director-as-it-doubles-down-on-advocacy-and-movement-building/
February 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I'm humbled by -- and grateful for -- the support Ismail and I received from the team and community with this news. And honestly, I couldn't ask for a better partner in this evolution of the work than Izzy.
Congrats to these authors for coining "the Musk illusion," forcing countless future researchers to the thesaurus as they uncover modern fallacies and delusions.
The human brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the universe - but we wildly overestimate it. It outputs thoughts at a ridiculously slow 10 bits per second, and all the knowledge it can store could fit on a small thumb drive.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Human Brain Operates at a Stunningly Slow Pace
The brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the known universe. But the thoughts that it outputs putter along at a trifling 10 bits per second, the pace of a conversation
www.scientificamerican.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Congrats to these authors for coining "the Musk illusion," forcing countless future researchers to the thesaurus as they uncover modern fallacies and delusions.
Civil disoBirdience: Birdy has found the power of a sit-in to protest turning around after only an hour of hiking
December 15, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Civil disoBirdience: Birdy has found the power of a sit-in to protest turning around after only an hour of hiking
I just had to go on that other platform to monitor some breaking news, and listen, I know you've been telling me it's gotten real bad, but how does one prepare oneself for that? It's a mess, y'all.
December 11, 2024 at 2:27 AM
I just had to go on that other platform to monitor some breaking news, and listen, I know you've been telling me it's gotten real bad, but how does one prepare oneself for that? It's a mess, y'all.
My colleagues see gaps between established scientific knowledge and community wisdom, then engage in years-long disputes with the FDA to remove barriers to research. From now on, research on cannabis' potential benefits will be allowed to mirror real-world use...creating real-world useful data.
After more than three years of tireless effort and five rounds of pushback from FDA, MAPS has won a Formal Dispute Resolution Request (FDRR) with the FDA’s Division of Psychiatry.
Learn more: nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/marijuana-ptsd-cannabis-science-fda-study.html
Learn more: nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/marijuana-ptsd-cannabis-science-fda-study.html
November 20, 2024 at 9:13 PM
My colleagues see gaps between established scientific knowledge and community wisdom, then engage in years-long disputes with the FDA to remove barriers to research. From now on, research on cannabis' potential benefits will be allowed to mirror real-world use...creating real-world useful data.
1. Public education & comms & co-creating a post-prohibition world
2. Training the dogs to ride in their sidecar.
a. At work it's strategies to support safe, equitable access to community-based psychedelic care (aka "the underground")
3. Silo (always a sucker for post-apocalypse sci-fi)
2. Training the dogs to ride in their sidecar.
a. At work it's strategies to support safe, equitable access to community-based psychedelic care (aka "the underground")
3. Silo (always a sucker for post-apocalypse sci-fi)
Bluesky Psychedelics People: Let's (re-)intro ourselves to one another!
Quote this post and tell us:
1) What you do in the field
2) A project you're currently working on
3) A show/film/book you're enjoying
Quote this post and tell us:
1) What you do in the field
2) A project you're currently working on
3) A show/film/book you're enjoying
November 18, 2024 at 11:16 PM
1. Public education & comms & co-creating a post-prohibition world
2. Training the dogs to ride in their sidecar.
a. At work it's strategies to support safe, equitable access to community-based psychedelic care (aka "the underground")
3. Silo (always a sucker for post-apocalypse sci-fi)
2. Training the dogs to ride in their sidecar.
a. At work it's strategies to support safe, equitable access to community-based psychedelic care (aka "the underground")
3. Silo (always a sucker for post-apocalypse sci-fi)
Reposted by Betty Aldworth
💡 How Do We Get Free Together ❓
📢 Join us November 19 for our very first Virtual Teach-In - featuring Spring Up 💥
💌 RSVP NOW 🔗
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#HarmReduction #Collective #Liberation #Abolition #TransformativeJustice #Mobilize
📢 Join us November 19 for our very first Virtual Teach-In - featuring Spring Up 💥
💌 RSVP NOW 🔗
eventbrite.ca/e/virtual-te...
#HarmReduction #Collective #Liberation #Abolition #TransformativeJustice #Mobilize
Virtual Teach-In: How Do We Get Free Together?
Join us Tuesday, November 19 at 2pm PT · 3pm MT · 4pm CT · 5pm ET · 6pm AT · 6:30pm NT for an engaging virtual teach-in featuring Spring Up!
eventbrite.ca
November 13, 2024 at 2:39 PM
💡 How Do We Get Free Together ❓
📢 Join us November 19 for our very first Virtual Teach-In - featuring Spring Up 💥
💌 RSVP NOW 🔗
eventbrite.ca/e/virtual-te...
#HarmReduction #Collective #Liberation #Abolition #TransformativeJustice #Mobilize
📢 Join us November 19 for our very first Virtual Teach-In - featuring Spring Up 💥
💌 RSVP NOW 🔗
eventbrite.ca/e/virtual-te...
#HarmReduction #Collective #Liberation #Abolition #TransformativeJustice #Mobilize
From one of my favorite teachers, @margaret.bsky.social.
"Fighting to win, in other words, is the right move whether or not we are likely to win."
"Fighting to win, in other words, is the right move whether or not we are likely to win."
The Sky is Falling; We've Got This
or: yes it's bad, no we need not despair
margaretkilljoy.substack.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
From one of my favorite teachers, @margaret.bsky.social.
"Fighting to win, in other words, is the right move whether or not we are likely to win."
"Fighting to win, in other words, is the right move whether or not we are likely to win."
Reposted by Betty Aldworth
There are some 40+ federal death row inmates. Biden should commute their executions before he leaves.
November 7, 2024 at 6:59 PM
There are some 40+ federal death row inmates. Biden should commute their executions before he leaves.
I'll be spending the next 6 days helping people cure their ballots...how about you?
In Nevada, the GOP is succeeding in throwing out the votes of thousands of young people. If you're in Clark or Washoe county, answer your phone tonight. It may be election officials, calling to cure the defect in your mailed-in ballot.
November 6, 2024 at 2:58 AM
I'll be spending the next 6 days helping people cure their ballots...how about you?
What's your preferred non-judgemental term to describe drug use by people in an undesired relationship with drugs, née "misuse" or "abuse," #HarmReduction & #DrugSky?
Looking for something person-centered that captures dependence, addiction, and high-risk use for our comms guidelines. 🙏
Looking for something person-centered that captures dependence, addiction, and high-risk use for our comms guidelines. 🙏
July 26, 2024 at 12:57 AM
What's your preferred non-judgemental term to describe drug use by people in an undesired relationship with drugs, née "misuse" or "abuse," #HarmReduction & #DrugSky?
Looking for something person-centered that captures dependence, addiction, and high-risk use for our comms guidelines. 🙏
Looking for something person-centered that captures dependence, addiction, and high-risk use for our comms guidelines. 🙏
Trans folx, what do you wish your parents would have said to you in these moments? What do you wish your cis friends parents would have said to them?
I've had a couple convos with parents grasping for how to talk to their kids today, so if you have a little energy to answer, they'll appreciate it.
I've had a couple convos with parents grasping for how to talk to their kids today, so if you have a little energy to answer, they'll appreciate it.
Rest in power nex benedict — Freedom Oklahoma
Nex should still be alive. Nex deserved not only a safe and nurturing
environment to learn, but an environment that actively disrupted
anti-2STGNC+ rhetoric and worked to ensure that vulnerable stud...
www.freedomoklahoma.org
February 21, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Trans folx, what do you wish your parents would have said to you in these moments? What do you wish your cis friends parents would have said to them?
I've had a couple convos with parents grasping for how to talk to their kids today, so if you have a little energy to answer, they'll appreciate it.
I've had a couple convos with parents grasping for how to talk to their kids today, so if you have a little energy to answer, they'll appreciate it.
Reposted by Betty Aldworth
I take it back, maybe endless leftist infighting is good
February 21, 2024 at 7:10 PM
I take it back, maybe endless leftist infighting is good
Reposted by Betty Aldworth
💊Vitamins are drugs
💊Supplements are drugs
💊Herbal products? Drugs
💊Ancient flower plucked by a penitent monk and ground into a powder? Druuuuugs
💊Supplements are drugs
💊Herbal products? Drugs
💊Ancient flower plucked by a penitent monk and ground into a powder? Druuuuugs
February 13, 2024 at 7:55 PM
💊Vitamins are drugs
💊Supplements are drugs
💊Herbal products? Drugs
💊Ancient flower plucked by a penitent monk and ground into a powder? Druuuuugs
💊Supplements are drugs
💊Herbal products? Drugs
💊Ancient flower plucked by a penitent monk and ground into a powder? Druuuuugs
Got to announce some incredible news about MDMA-assisted therapy today! maps.org/2024/02/09/m...
MAPS Congratulates Lykos Therapeutics on Acceptance of New Drug Application for MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD - Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies - MAPS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 9, 2024 The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) congratulates Lykos Therapeutics, formerly MAPS Public Benefit Corporation, on its announcement...
maps.org
February 10, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Got to announce some incredible news about MDMA-assisted therapy today! maps.org/2024/02/09/m...
Really great news for anyone living with trauma (i.e. everyone) + drugs in yer comics
Huge news lost in the shuffle yesterday - the US Vets Adm will start funding psychedelics research for PTSD! Which brings me to these incredible pages from @jedmackay.bsky.social + Pasqual Ferry + Heather Moore from Doctor Strange #10 (2023). I live with PTSD - these pages brought me to tears.
January 6, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Really great news for anyone living with trauma (i.e. everyone) + drugs in yer comics
Reposted by Betty Aldworth
Huge news lost in the shuffle yesterday - the US Vets Adm will start funding psychedelics research for PTSD! Which brings me to these incredible pages from @jedmackay.bsky.social + Pasqual Ferry + Heather Moore from Doctor Strange #10 (2023). I live with PTSD - these pages brought me to tears.
January 6, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Huge news lost in the shuffle yesterday - the US Vets Adm will start funding psychedelics research for PTSD! Which brings me to these incredible pages from @jedmackay.bsky.social + Pasqual Ferry + Heather Moore from Doctor Strange #10 (2023). I live with PTSD - these pages brought me to tears.
15 years in, TIL the most important drug facts of my career.
cocaine is straight. mdma is bi
weed is gay
January 5, 2024 at 3:16 PM
15 years in, TIL the most important drug facts of my career.
“As cannabis, MDMA, psilocybin, and other drugs inch closer to potential FDA approval as safe and effective treatments, yet another harm of the War on Drugs is revealed: decades of missed opportunity to reduce suffering among people living with debilitating conditions."
MAPS Applies For FDA Approval Of MDMA-Assisted Therapy For PTSD
MAPS PBC announced Dec. 13 that it has submitted a New Drug Application for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
www.forbes.com
December 15, 2023 at 6:20 PM
“As cannabis, MDMA, psilocybin, and other drugs inch closer to potential FDA approval as safe and effective treatments, yet another harm of the War on Drugs is revealed: decades of missed opportunity to reduce suffering among people living with debilitating conditions."
Ok so I seem to have forgotten how to social media. I think you start like this?
December 13, 2023 at 6:21 AM
Ok so I seem to have forgotten how to social media. I think you start like this?