Scientists seem to have found a pleasant side effect of taking psychedelic drugs: a reduced risk of developing heart disease and diabetes. A team of scientists identified the unexpected trend after ...

When Michael Pollan tripped on magic mushrooms for the first time, he saw himself spread out across an expansive outdoor landscape like paint. It was the best-selling author's second stop on a ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin (the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms”) and mescaline are three of the most widely studied classic psychedelics. Each has a long history of ...

Penn's first annual psychedelics summit brought together more than 160 researchers, practitioners, philosophers, students, and psychedelics enthusiasts to cultivate discourse on the potential ...

Psilocybin, a chemical found in psychedelic mushrooms, and LSD may be effective in treating cluster headaches, according to a team of researchers that includes psychiatry professor John H. Halpern.

PICTURE YOURSELF NOT in a boat on a river but instead on a sectional sofa in a sunken living room in a majestic $9-million-dollar Point Dume mansion overlooking the Pacific. Here, the tangerine trees ...

Elon Musk takes ketamine. Sergey Brin sometimes enjoys magic mushrooms. Executives at venture-capital firm Founders Fund, known for its investments in SpaceX and Facebook, have thrown parties that ...

Ready for round two? Last week, Research Radio, a podcast series from The New School in New York, released Behind the Shrooms, a first installment in a two-part series that details the last ...

“I would like to see some college set up a psychedelic center and after a great deal of careful preparation, make an expertly guided session available to the students willing to prepare for it,” said ...