Psychedelic Drugs

As a prospective bill could decriminalize magic mushrooms in Illinois, here's what to know about the drugs experts hope could revolutionize mental health care.

Jada Pinkett Smith welcomed her son, Jaden, onto the latest episode of her "Red Table Talk" show, where they candidly discussed taking magic mushrooms.

Psilocybin, the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms," is now undergoing clinical trials. If all goes well, treatments could be available by 2024.

We need to stop treating psychedelics as illicit recreational drugs and go back to looking at them in the same way we did before the war on drugs started.

A private non-profit research group seeking to conduct a final phase of clinical trials of MDMA, the main ingredient in the recreational drug ecstasy, got a major boost from Silicon Valley and Wall Street donors.

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.

While the overdose itself was an unpleasant experience, the trip may have had "positive effects" on the chronic foot pain that the woman was suffering from, according to a case study report.

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

The legendary singer from The Beatles also once saw a white squirrel that he believed was his reincarnated dead wife Linda.

This finding further upholds the drug's potential use in treating a number of mental health conditions such as depression and addiction.

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.

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

Scientists would research it even more if the law would let them.

It's a psychedelic trip, without the psychedelics. 

People who used drugs like magic mushrooms or LSD were 12 percent less likely to have assaulted someone and 18 percent less likely to have been arrested for violent crime.

But the results may show less than promised.

Researchers looking at the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs found increased neural signals in the brain scans of people given them.

Both men allegedly took the drug ayahuasca in a Peruvian spiritual ceremony.

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

New research suggests careful use may aid the mentally ill.

A conversation with "Medicine Hunter" Chris Kilham about the plant's psychedelic healing powers.