Psilocybin—the psychedelic compound that occurs naturally in certain "magic" mushroom species—has been shown in trials to ...

Young adults in America are using marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs at higher rates than ever before, but are taking fewer opioids, according to a National Institutes for Health study published this ...

A new study published in the peer-review journal Cell looks at a novel compound capable of providing some of the therapeutic properties of psychedelics without hallucinations. The paper, co-authored ...

At the University of California (UC), Davis, psychLight just dropped in to see what condition serotonin dynamics was in. And psychLight didn’t even have to fly eight miles high. Upon binding serotonin ...

Psychedelics—frequently recognized as substances such as LSD, psilocybin, and DMT—not only alter perception, mood, and cognition, but they often cause hallucinations. That said, they have also been ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

People have vast, spiraling experiences on psychedelic drugs, often returning from a hallucinogenic trip full of new outlooks on their life or even changes to their personality. They describe the ...

Snippets of hair believed to have belonged to Bronze Age shamans on the Spanish island of Menorca were found to have traces of psychoactive alkaloids, offering the first evidence of hallucinogenic ...

Is it time to give hallucinogenic drugs for medical use another try? Some researchers in California make that case in a study of a dozen patients with advanced cancer. The patients, 11 women and 1 man ...

Well-known figures such as Vincent Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, even Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, all used hallucinogenic drinks to cope with life's everyday ...