While drug-induced mystical experiences can have benefits, research suggests they may not be enough to create lasting change.

Drugs like magic mushrooms and LSD can act as powerful and long-lasting antidepressants. But they also tend to produce mind-bending side-effects that limit their use. Now, scientists report in the ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Half a century after Timothy Leary urged the world to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” there’s a surge of interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The psychedelic drug was ...

A mid-stage study of a pharmaceutical version of the psychedelic LSD reported the drug might help alleviate anxiety symptoms for up to three months, advancing a potential treatment for the most common ...

A single intravenous infusion of DMT, a fast-acting psychedelic compound found in the Amazonian brew ayahuasca, significantly ...

In A Nutshell Researchers used a light-based brain imaging technique in mice to watch, in real time, what happens in the brain during a psychedelic experience and found a specific electrical rhythm ...

In 1857, the American writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow described his experiences with hashish in his memoir The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean: “It is this process of ...

Scientists have made a drug based on LSD that seems to fight depression without producing a psychedelic experience. Drugs like magic mushrooms and LSD can act as powerful and long-lasting ...