Psychedelics

Taking the hallucinogenic DMT is said to resemble a near death experience. A woman taking the drug as part of a study spoke to Newsweek about being "dropped into a cosmic soup."

Trial participants will take the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms while having psychological therapy.

Participants in clinical trials who were given a small dose of psychedelics were rated as having more openness than non-users.

Taking the drug resulted in the emergence of a “new type of order in the brain.”

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.

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

Stigma and funding challenges make potentially useful drugs like LSD and psilocybin nearly impossible to research.

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

Speakers attested to ayahuasca’s ability to heal depression and other maladies.

Santa was on a “trip” with his reindeer, according to one theory.

Scientists and scholars discussed experiments with psychedelics drugs to treat anxiety, depression, addiction and other issues at a recent conference in New York City.