November 20, 2018
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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ketamine’s antidepressant effects
Breakthrough study finds new mechanism explaining ketamine's antidepressant effects A team at the University of…
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Brain scans highlight a hidden, “higher” state of consciousness
Reaching a higher state of consciousness is a concept you're more likely to hear a…
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Psilocybin therapy
Psychedelic psilocybin therapy for depression granted Breakthrough Therapy status by FDA In an extraordinary step…
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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
How and Why Silicon Valley Gets High
Everyone’s hoping a little LSD can lead them to the next billion-dollar idea. Over the…
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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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September 1, 2018
FDA Approves Magic Mushrooms For Treating Depression
The Food and Drug Administration has taken an active role in approving new therapies to…
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July 20, 2018
The Science of the Psychedelic Renaissance
n 1960, Allen Ginsberg wrote a letter to Timothy Leary, then a professor at Harvard.…
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July 20, 2018
Religion as a Product of Psychotropic Drug Use
The notion that hallucinogenic drugs played a significant part in the development of religion has…
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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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LSD May Chip Away at the Brain’s “Sense of Self” Network
From Tom Wolfe’s account of the LSD-loving Merry Pranksters and their bus ride across America…
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Treating Addiction with Psychedelics
The psychedelic drug ibogaine is known for two things: its reputation in some circles as…
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Do Psychedelics Expand the Mind by Reducing Brain Activity?
What would you see if you could look inside a hallucinating brain? Despite decades of…
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Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?
The resumption of clinical research with psychedelics is producing preliminary evidence of benefit for a…
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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
Agony &
As human beings, we are hardwired to experience Ecstasy, Epiphany, Laughter and Bliss. Little children…
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July 20, 2018
LSD May Help Treat Alcoholism
The psychedelic drug LSD can help people with alcoholism quit or cut back their drinking,…
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‘Magic Mushrooms’ Can Improve Psychological Health Long Term
The psychedelic drug in magic mushrooms may have lasting medical and spiritual benefits, according to…
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‘Magic Mushrooms’ Trigger Lasting Personality Change
The psychedelic drug psilocybin (the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms”) may produce lasting, positive changes…
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Ending America’s War on Drugs Would Finally Unleash the Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelics
It was only after U.S. veteran Jonathan Lubecky pulled the trigger on a loaded gun…
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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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Psychedelic ayahuasca works against severe depression, study finds
"Leon" is a young Brazilian man who has long struggled with depression. He keeps an anonymous…
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June 26, 2018
Psychedelics may pave path to aid PTSD, more
Psychedelic drugs’ mindexpanding properties may be rooted in their ability to prompt neurons to branch…
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June 26, 2018
FDA Approves First Drug Made From Cannabis
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Epidiolex to treat two…
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June 5, 2018
A neuroscientist reviews Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Your Mind”
The book shines new light on the revitalized field of psychedelic medicine It’s safe to…
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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…
Read More May 28, 2018
How LSD Microdosing Became the Hot New Business Trip
Regular doses of acid have become the creativity enhancer of choice for some professionals Let's…
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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 takes a trip in his latest book, “How to Change Your Mind”
Over the past 30 years, in numerous food- and farm-related articles, and in his five…
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May 28, 2018
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan – review
In 1938, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, seeking a new drug to stimulate blood circulation,…
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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 28, 2018
A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar
Microdosing is hot. If you haven’t heard — but you probably have, from reports of…
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May 28, 2018
Americans are excited to make psychedelics mainstream once again
It’s difficult to turn on the radio or open a magazine at the moment without…
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May 25, 2018
A Drug Researcher Talks Michael Pollan’s Book, PTSD Treatment And Trump On LSD
The endgame for psychedelic drugs isn’t “microdosing Fridays.” It’s treating major mental illness. The idea…
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This Will Change Your Mind About Psychedelic Drugs
For years, the field of mental health has been largely barren of meaningful treatment advances.…
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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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May 14, 2018
Ketamine offers new hope for patients with severe depression
Inspired by promising research into ketamine's therapeutic effects, people are swapping strategies online on how…
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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 9, 2018
Ketamine Stirs up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug
The next big depression treatment might be ketamine, but how best to use it remains…
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May 8, 2018
The New Science of Psychedelics
Recent studies are finding that drugs such as LSD and psilocybin can help to alleviate…
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Ecstasy as a Remedy for PTSD? You Probably Have Some Questions.
The drug known by the street names Ecstasy or Molly could be a promising treatment…
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May 2, 2018
Professor Probes Psychedelic Drugs for a Cure to Nicotine Addiction
Despite science’s checkered history of experimenting with mind-bending drugs, Johnson insists his field of interest…
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Can Mushrooms Treat Depression?
I TRIED magic mushrooms out of curiosity and in middle age. I’d been on the…
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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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