Magic mushrooms

A new study has examined the impact of psilocybin—the active ingredient in magic mushrooms—on the brain.

Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps has committed a million dollars to a campaign to legalize psilocybin therapy in Oregon.

The war on drugs which stopped research on psychedelics was "one of the worst examples of censorship of human research in the history of science," according to the authors of a commentary in the journal Cell.

Newsweek spoke to the co-author of Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships about the ethics of intervening in this fundamental part of being human with psychoactive substances.

Scientists followed the progress of over a dozen cancer patients who took psilocybin.

There isn't anywhere in America where magic mushrooms are legal.

Scientists spoke to over 1,000 people at arts and music festivals about their experiences taking psychedelics.

A new research center funded by private donors will study possible psilocybin therapies at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Psilocybin mushrooms, often called magic mushrooms or shrooms, might soon be partially legal, or at least decriminalized, in several states. Here's how to trip safely.

The researchers hope their study could help people with mental disorders such as schizophrenia.

Psilocybin is increasingly being recognized by scientists as potentially effective treatments for a number of psychological disorders, such as addiction and depression.

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Findings suggest that psychedelics could be used to treat a host of mood and anxiety disorders, such as depression, anxiety, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Results could one day lead to novel treatments or therapies for reducing domestic violence, the lead author said.

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"Psilocybin may produce sustained changes in outlook and political perspective."

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It's a psychedelic trip, without the psychedelics. 

Mayoral candidate says the fungi saved him from heroin.

Brain scans revealed that psilocybin could be more effective than antidepressants.

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Five of 12 patients treated were in remission three months later.

The drug could be used to help treat anxiety and depression in the future.

Psilocybin, LSD and other chemicals should be extensively studied, scientists say.

A letter published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal has claimed that psychedelic drugs are safer than currently thought.

Emergency legislation signed after Appeal Court ruling effectively legalised more than 100 hard drugs in Ireland.

New research suggests careful use may aid the mentally ill.

Participants at Johns Hopkins reported an 80 percent abstinence from cigarettes following the psilocybin study