Four decades after Timothy Leary, LSD shows success in medical trials. Will the right completely trip?
Scientists push to renew psychedelic drug research for psychiatry
Back in the 50's there were legitimate medical experiments with LSD but psychedelic drugs in the labs were side-swiped by their use on the street. And as a growing counter-culture dropped acid, governments picked up restrictions making research almost impossible. Until now.
Can Psychedelics Make Us More Moral?
With a renaissance going on in psychedelic research, is making us better people included?
Terence McKenna's Last Trip
The "altered statesman" emerged from Leary's long shadow to push a magical blend of psychedelics, technology, and revelatory rap. He had less time than he knew.
From treating PTSD to quitting tobacco: researchers say public investment into psychedelic drugs essential | CBC News
Magic mushrooms to treat depression, ecstasy to cure PTSD and LSD to combat alcoholism; just some of the drug-affliction pairings that have been tested in recent years.
Sanitizing the Psychedelic Revolution
Big Pharma is rushing to monetize ancient healing practices, but what’s left might not be the same medicine
Acid test: how psychedelic virtual reality can help end society's mass bad trip
Cyberdelic VR is being used to treat trauma and even simulate near-death experiences
Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness
Drug researcher David Nutt discusses brain-imaging studies with hallucinogens.
Researchers are giving religious leaders psychedelic drugs in the interest of science
Despite the fact that psychedelic drugs have been used for millennia as medicine in ritualistic ceremonies, there remain many questions in the scientific community about the relationship between their spiritual qualities and healing potential. Researchers at Johns Hopkins and New York Universities are giving psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, to ordained ministers in the hopes that they can help provide some answers.
The Push to Legalize Magic Mushrooms for Depression and PTSD
Activists, entrepreneurs, and doctors in the US and Canada are working to decriminalize psilocybin psychotherapy and calling for a psychedelic revolution.
Growing research finds psychedelics effective in treating disease
Gordon McGlothlin, who took his first puff at age 12 behind his family’s garage, tried to quit smoking for years, but no cessation technique worked until he used a psychedelic drug. Researchers with the Johns Hopkins University…
How LSD Microdosing Became the Hot New Business Trip
Regular doses of acid have become the creativity enhancer of choice for some professionals
Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted psilocybin therapy a Breakthrough Therapy designation for the second time in a year, this time with a view on accelerating trials testing its efficacy treating major depressive disorder (MDD).
A woman took 550 times the usual dose of LSD, with surprisingly positive consequences | CNN
Accidental drug overdoses can be life threatening but for two women who took massive hits of LSD the experience was life changing – in a good way.
What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
The results of a controversial 10-year-old study of more than a dozen clergy who took psilocybin on guided trips only recently came to light.
Brain scans show how LSD mimics mind of a baby
Scientists have for the first time scanned the brains of people using LSD and found the psychedelic drug frees the brain to become less compartmentalized and more like the mind of a baby.
Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Clergy Study Found to Have Multiple Counts of "Serious Non-Compliance" with Federal Human Subject Protections
Unauthorized donor involvement and unauthorized study team members "significantly compromised" human research protection program, per JHU, citing other concerns for participants' rights and welfare.
