Can Psychedelic Drugs Do Good?
On October 29, 1966, the Austin-based band 13th Floor Elevators performed their psych-rock hit, “You’re Gonna Miss Me” on American Bandstand.
How science is bringing psychedelic mushrooms out of the shadows
After a long exile from academia, researchers are now looking to psychedelics as promising solutions for addiction, depression, and PTSD.
Another psychedelic revolution, but this time it’s different
After years battling arduous laws and red tape, psychedelic therapy research is enjoying new found freedoms. The onus is now on scientists to prove it really works...
A new scientific study suggests strong similarities between near death experiences and the psychedelic drug
The chill of the fluid flows through Iona's arm as the DMT - N,N-Dimethyltryptamine- is pumped into her bloodstream.
Psychedelic drug use linked to lower suicide risk, finds study
Psychaedelic drugs have been linked to a lower risk of suicide in marginalised people in a new study.
Psychedelics’ Buddhist Revival
Nearly ten years ago, in the middle of a monthlong meditation retreat, Spring Washam had a sobering experience. Far from entering one of the blissful states of concentration that often mark the jhanas, the progressive stages of meditative absorption outlined in Theravada Buddhism...
No link found between psychedelics and psychosis
In large US survey, users of LSD and similar drugs were no more likely to have mental-health conditions than other respondents.
Could psychedelics transform mental health?
Think of magic mushrooms and LSD and it's likely that science is not the first thing that springs to mind.
Sacred Knowledge: how psychedelics shaped an academic's life
In 1963, then-psychology grad student William A Richards was studying in Germany when he volunteered to take part in an experiment with psychedelics.
Groovy, baby! The renaissance in psychedelic science is here
If you’ve been paying attention to the health news of late, you might think you’ve have travelled back in time to the 1960s. It’s not a bad acid trip.
