Psychedelics

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

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University assessed the experiences of over 2,000 people who had taken the psychedelic drug.

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

The famous name comes from exactly where you'd expect it to: high school kids looking to get stoned.

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.

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

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

"DMT has remarkable effects in human consciousness," Christopher Timmermann, from the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, told Newsweek.

"Why do I even want to be in the Legislature, why do I want to be a part of the office?' It was this issue."

Explaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy.

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.

Users who took minute doses of LSD and mushrooms also reported an improved mood and sharpened focus.

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."

It's a psychedelic trip, without the psychedelics. 

Mayoral candidate says the fungi saved him from heroin.

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.

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

Feeling "one with nature" or feeling the self "dissolve" is triggered when psychedelics shift the patterns of connectivity in the brain.

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.

New research suggests careful use may aid the mentally ill.

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.