psychedelics

Latest in psychedelics

Those "magic mushroom" edibles may contain a lot more than manufacturers are letting on — if they're not complete bogus.
Brain

Scientists Tested What’s Really in “Psilocybin” Chocolate and Found Something Alarming

By Frank Landymore

A close confidante of Elon Musk's who once worked at his DOGE agency is now in control of a pharma company that's poised to sell legal MDMA.
Elon Musk

Top Elon Musk Acolyte Running Large MDMA Empire

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI has taken on a new role for some users: one of a psychedelic "trip-sitter" who guides them through their hallucinogenic journeys. 
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Taking Massive Doses of Psychedelic Drugs and Using AI as a Tripsitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

His findings showed that psilocybin "desynchronized" the brain, but also produced subtle, lasting effects in boosting plasticity.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientist Takes High Dose of Psilocybin, Clambers Into MRI Machine to Scan His Own Brain

By Frank Landymore

Therapists suggest in a new study that there are some intense drawbacks, on their sides and for patients, of psychedelic therapy.
Treatments

Therapists Warn That Taking Magic Mushrooms for Treatment Can Lead to Unwanted Romantic Feelings

By Noor Al-Sibai

People Who Take Magic Mushrooms Have Better Sex, Scientists Find
Studies

People Who Take Magic Mushrooms Have Better Sex, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ketamine is still widely unregulated as a therapy, meaning that buying "prescriptions" online is pretty much just buying drugs.
Health & Medicine

FDA Warns That a Lot of “Ketamine Therapy” Seems to Just Be Partying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ate psychedelic mushrooms on a recent trip to China, but did not know they had hallucinogenic properties.
Science & Energy

US Treasury Secretary Says She Didn’t Know the Mushrooms She Ate Were Psychedelic

By Sharon Adarlo

Office vibes a little off? Some startups say you should try group workplace ketamine sessions. File under: that's one way to do it.
Developments

Startups Have a Fun New Idea: Workplace Ketamine Sessions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ben Goertzel, the AI pioneer credited with popularizing the term "artificial intelligence," has much ado about, well, everything.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet the AI Researcher Building His Own AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI has, apparently, opened new doors for psychedelics enthusiasts to show the world the beautiful realms they inhabit when tripping.
Artificial Intelligence

Psychedelics Researcher Enlists AI Artist to Draw Beings They Met While Tripping on DMT

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the world's foremost psychedelics researchers is taking a curious approach to the knowledge of his own death — by treating it as a beautiful mystery.
Cancer

Pioneering Psychedelics Researcher Gets Terminal Cancer, Is Totally Chill

By Noor Al-Sibai

DMT is said to produce strangely similar trips for many who take it — and a new version of the drug may help people stay there longer.
Neuroscience and Brain

Startup Trying to Test Whether People on DMT Experience a Shared Alien Universe

By Noor Al-Sibai

Grocery stores have been forced to recall some prepackaged salad mixes after tons of people got sick from a baby spinach mix that gave them hallucinations.
Health & Medicine

Grocery Stores Alarmed by Spinach Giving Dozens of Customers Hallucinogenic Trips

By Noor Al-Sibai

The startup CEO who was fired for taking LSD before an investor meeting is now suing his former employer for alleged ableist and racist discrimination.
Health & Medicine

Former CEO Sues Company That Fired Him for Microdosing LSD in an Investor Meeting

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new, large study out of Oxford found that just a single synthetic mushroom "trip" can help ease depression symptoms for multiple months.
Treatments

Taking Psilocybin Just Once Eases Treatment-Resistant Depression in Study

By Noor Al-Sibai