In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the ...

Count Deepak Chopra among the medical experts who see enormous promise in psychedelic substances like psilocybin or “magic mushrooms.” “I think psychedelics might wake us up,” Chopra says in the new ...

A meta-analytic study looking into the safety and efficacy of LSD for treating mental health disorders found that its effectiveness largely depends on the type of disorder. While the analysis found no ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Clinic is in the vanguard of a new era of research into psychedelic medicine. The Clinic is the only Ohio site participating in a national study looking at whether LSD, ...

A new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology has reported the results of the first modern clinical investigation to compare the acute effects of psychedelics LSD and psilocybin. The ...

Those who have used psilocybin or LSD may be familiar with the experience: The day following your trip, it’s back to reality, yet there are still glimmers of your previous day’s journey, a fleeting ...

A new study published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs has found that psychedelic experiences are linked to reductions in ...

While dosing is the most significant determinant, other psychological and pharmacological factors also play a critical role. A positive mood before drug intake was strongly linked to elevated ratings ...

“The mind—that seven inches of in ner space between the root of the nose and the occiput— our prized possession; its study on every level is most important,” says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen ...

LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938, working for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now part of Novartis) in Basel, Switzerland. He discovered its powerful psychoactive effects in ...

George Harrison wrote “See Yourself” with some interesting inspiration in mind. He wrote it around the time Paul McCartney first told the press that he took LSD. The song was George’s way of telling ...