After half-a-century of prohibition, the United States is about to legalize psilocybin and MDMA for clinical use, to treat people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or terminal cancer. Scientists, patients, clandestine therapists and war veterans speak with EL PAÍS about the bright spots and shadows of this rebirth
Research suggests that having to obtain parental permission can be a significant barrier to teens accessing treatment
The justices must rule on whether to uphold or overturn Colorado’s decision to exclude him from the state’s ballot for having participated in an insurrection
The rejection of the conservation groups’ petitions allows state-sanctioned wolf hunts to continue in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled next week to hear arguments in Trump’s appeal of a Colorado ruling declaring him ineligible for the presidency in that state
Trump, who won the Iowa caucuses on Monday, remains on the Maine ballot for the March 5 primary for now
The High Court has scheduled arguments in the Colorado case and Trump’s lawyers argue the issues are ‘identical to the federal issues raised’ in Maine case
Like in more than a dozen other states, the voters made the case that the U.S. former president should be disqualified because he urged his supporters to march on the Capitol
The petition is similar to those filed in more than a dozen other states. Colorado and Maine have already banned Trump’s name from primary election ballots
The judges’ decision will affect the dozens of states where his participation in the presidential election is contested
It is the second state to decide not to allow the Republican to participate in the presidential primaries because of the attack on the Capitol. Michigan decided Wednesday that he can run
The Colorado Supreme Court stayed its historic ruling until Jan. 4 or when an appeal is resolved with the nation’s highest court
The top tribunal must decide whether the 14th Amendment — which bans an ‘insurrectionist’ from running for public office — can be applied to a president
The Court was urged to rule over his immunity to prevent any delays that could postpone the trial of the Republican presidential primary front-runner until after next year’s election
The Democratic president stopped short of commenting on the Colorado legal case. ‘Whether the 14th Amendment applies or not, we’ll let the court make that decision,’ he said
The state ruling recognizing insurrection charges under the 14th Amendment has the potential to halt Trump’s candidacy if validated by the US Supreme Court
‘Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God’ is an HBO documentary about the sect that ended with the discovery of a blue corpse in 2021. The film delves into the paranoid fantasies of the cult’s followers, many of whom had harsh lives and felt forgotten by the system
The western state can proceed with its plan to find, capture and transport up to 10 wolves from Oregon starting Sunday
Across the U.S. in 2022, the most recent year that figures are available, there were 96.6 adult men for every 100 adult women
The predators’ release, voted for in a 2020 ballot measure, has already stirred controversy and sharpened divides between rural and urban residents
The most ambitious wolf reintroduction effort in the U.S. in almost three decades marks a sharp departure from aggressive efforts by Republican-led states to cull wolf packs
Dozens of lawsuits citing the provision to keep Trump from running again for president have been filed across the country this year. None have succeeded, but the Colorado case is seen as among the most significant
Protections for the species were rejected under former President Donald Trump. The Biden administration released a proposal to protect them
The federal count of homeless people reached 580,000 last year, driven by lack of affordable housing, a pandemic that economically wrecked households, and lack of access to mental health and addiction treatment
Experts may have identified a pathogen that has sickened and killed dogs around the country
Nearly half of the 27,000 migrants who have arrived in Denver since November 2022 have received a ticket from the city to travel onward. In New York and Illinois, taxpayer dollars are also being spent on tickets out of town
Since the mass shooting at Club Q that killed five people and wounded 17 others in 2022, Colorado Springs has taken steps to reshape itself as inclusive and welcoming
