November 24, 2019
DARPA attempting to remove hallucinatory “side effects” from psychedelic medicines
Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Unit are commencing a landmark human clinical trial…
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September 9, 2019
Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Psychedelic Research
The research center, with $17 million from donors, aims to give “psychedelic medicine” a long-sought foothold in the…
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June 27, 2019
If Everyone Tripped on Psychedelics, We’d Do More About Climate Change
Scientists are looking into what psychedelics do to inspire people to act pro-environmentally. fter taking…
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June 11, 2019
The Heady, Thorny Journey to Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms
IN AN AIRY Denver café populated almost entirely by young people staring at laptops, Travis Tyler…
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February 8, 2019
Brazil Is Giving Ayahuasca To Prison Inmates On Their Path To Redemption
In a quest to ease pressures on the Brazilian prison system, mental health workers have…
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Campaign to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms in Denver says it has enough signatures to make the ballot
Denver for Psilocybin said it will turn in more than 8,000 ballot signatures following a…
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December 26, 2018
The Science of the Psychedelic Renaissance
Three new books suggest that psychedelic drugs did not necessarily have the power to rewrite…
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Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Closer to Medicinal Use (It’s Not Just Your Imagination)
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have suggested that psilocybin, which is found in hallucinogenic mushrooms,…
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December 26, 2018
How LSD Changes Perception
Researchers report LSD triggers a reduction in functional connection between areas of the brain that…
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MDMA promotes cooperative behavior but only with trustworthy people
Commonly referred to as ecstasy or molly, MDMA is anecdotally known to make people more…
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MDMA therapy achieves astounding 76% success rate for treating PTSD
Newly published results from a Phase 2 clinical trial into the efficacy of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy…
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For $1,000, These ‘Sitters’ Will Save You from a Bad Acid Trip
Yes, being a professional trip sitter is actually a job. Before getting on a plane,…
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ketamine’s antidepressant effects
Breakthrough study finds new mechanism explaining ketamine's antidepressant effects A team at the University of…
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Psychedelic Medicine 101: DMT and the near-death experience
A new study from Imperial College London has found significant overlap between the experiences reported…
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September 21, 2018
Scientists Gave MDMA to Octopuses—and What Happened Was Profound
When humans take the drug MDMA, versions of which are known as molly or ecstasy,…
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September 1, 2018
Scientists Are Starting to Test Claims about “Microdosing”
Dennis van der Meijden isn’t aiming to see the face of God, feel one with…
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August 27, 2018
Psychedelic drugs: An effective form of treatment for mental illness?
Why psychedelic drugs could transform how we treat depression and mental illness? The first time…
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August 2, 2018
The Psychedelic Road to Other Conscious States
How do a few pounds of gray goo in our skulls create our conscious experience—the…
Read More July 20, 2018
Can Psychedelic Drugs Be Medically Useful?
It is exhilarating to witness a resurgence in the study of psychedelics, something President Nixon…
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How Ayelet Waldman Found a Calmer Life on Tiny Doses of LSD
Ayelet Waldman is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and activist, but to many she is best…
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Entheogens: A Brief History of Their Spiritual Use
Too many people, the words psychedelic and spiritual are dissonant on first hearing. Yet the use…
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July 20, 2018
The Psychedelic Miracle
Dr. X is a dad. Appropriately – boringly – at 4:37 p.m. on a national…
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July 20, 2018
My Adventures With the Trip Doctors
My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft…
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July 20, 2018
Music helps hallucinogens heal minds, scientist finds
“I’m going to take you on a ride here,” the music seemed to tell a…
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Psychedelic drugs now used in human studies
After decades of political suppression, studies on psychedelics are now experiencing what top researchers have…
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July 20, 2018
Drugs: Is the Pot User Driven–Or in the Driver’s Seat?
Drug users insist that marijuana, amphetamines, LSD and other psychedelic agents give them pleasure, a…
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Just One Dose of This Psychedelic Drug Can Ease Anxiety
Cancer is a brutal disease on both the body and mind. Not only do treatments…
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July 6, 2018
Can meditation and psychedelics have the same benefits for your mind?
(CNN)Do you ever find yourself worrying about an upcoming situation, even though similar past experiences…
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June 2, 2018
People with Addiction Are Tripping on Shrooms to Find God and Get Sober
New research suggests that psilocybin-assisted therapy may lead to "God moments" that can have surprising…
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May 28, 2018
Microdosing’s Micromoment
Consuming crumb-size amounts of psychedelics — not to get high but to feel more focused…
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Michael Pollan: Can Psychedelics Save the World?
Most people know Michael Pollan as a food writer. His 2006 book, The Omnivore's Dilemma,…
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May 14, 2018
Ketamine, notorious club drug, shows promise as a treatment for depression, studies indicate
Sabrina Misra suffered from depression for most of her life, but last summer, it became…
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The Long, Hard Road to a Science of Bad Drug Trips
If we’re going to use psychedelics for therapy, we’re going to have to figure out…
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May 2, 2018
Novel psychopharmacological therapies for psychiatric disorders: psilocybin and MDMA
phosphorloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (psilocybin) and methylenedioxymethamfetamine (MDMA), best known for their illegal use as psychedelic drugs, are…
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May 2, 2018
Psilocybin can reduce the pain of social exclusion
It hurts to be left out, but for most people, social exclusion doesn’t become pathological.…
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May 2, 2018
Magic-mushroom drug lifts depression in first human trial
Researchers' long fight to test psilocybin's safety finally yields fruit. A hallucinogenic drug derived from…
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May 2, 2018
Hallucinogen Therapy is Coming
hree years later Daniel Kreitman still chokes up when he talks about what he saw,…
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May 2, 2018
Magic Mushrooms ‘reboot’ brain in depressed people – study
Patients unresponsive to conventional treatments benefit when treated with natural psychoactive compound, but researchers warn…
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May 1, 2018
Becoming a Psychedelic Researcher
By R. Andrew Sewell With the current renaissance in psychedelic research, after a forty-year moratorium,…
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March 29, 2018
A little-known hallucinogenic drug called DMT takes people to a place that feels ‘more real than real’ — here’s what researchers know about it
DMT is a psychedelic drug that is found in many plants and animals, including humans.…
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Psychedelic drugs altering mainstream medicine
The hippie adage, "Turn on, tune in, drop out," now comes with a modern addendum:…
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Breakthrough study reveals how LSD dissolves a person’s sense of self
By Richard Haridy A fascinating study led by scientists at the University of Zurich has…
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March 13, 2018
Brain Scans Show First Proof Psychedelics Change Consciousness
Every year on 4/20, marijuana enthusiasts light up in hopes of reaching a higher plane…
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March 1, 2018
‘Magic Mushrooms’ Psychedelic Drug May Ease Anxiety, Depression
NEW YORK (AP) — The psychedelic drug in “magic mushrooms” can quickly and effectively help…
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February 3, 2018
‘Acid Test’: The case for using psychedelics to treat PTSD, depression
This article is excerpted from Tom Shroder’s “Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy and the Power to…
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February 3, 2018
Entheogenic Education: Psychedelics as Tools of Wonder and Awe
“Is it too much to hope that a system of education may some day be…
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February 3, 2018
Magic mushrooms chemicals could help people with depression, says leading psychiatrist
Scientists are researching how psychoactive drugs could be used to treat mental illness in what…
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January 1, 2016
There Is Such a Thing as Plant Intelligence
Plants are capable of solving problems and learning from past experience When Paleolithic painters decorated the walls…
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March 23, 2013
Interconnected by Plant Consciousness
Inge Kuijper, Guest Waking Times A look at the recent conference Plant Consciousness: Revolutionizing Our Relationship…
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February 15, 2013
The Promise Healing of Entheogens
Banned after promising research in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, the use of psychedelics as…
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