Researchers are investigating whether the drug could be used in mainstream medicine—with and without its hallucinatory ...

Psychedelic medicine is surging back into favour in 2025, but the very features that make these drugs promising may be the ...

It’s no secret that LSD causes vivid hallucinations, altered states of consciousness, one-ness with the universe, and a host of other psychedelic effects. But ever since the trippy chemical was ...

While trying to understand what makes the psychedelic drug LSD work, Dr. Mattias Liechti, head of the Liechti Laboratory at the University of Basel Hospital, stumbled onto something unexpected. During ...

Researchers at the Imperial College of London have for the first time mapped the effects of LSD on the brain using fMRI and other scans while patients were under the influence of the drug. The images ...

A newly published study examining the use of psychedelics in non-clinical settings to treat alcoholism is suggesting a great number of individuals see a reduction in problematic alcohol consumption ...

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 ...

The drug LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide, is infamous for the long and intense trips it induces. But the psychedelic drug is also thought to hold potential as a powerful treatment for serious ...

Think of acid and you probably think about drugged-out hippies twirling obliviously to the Grateful Dead. Turns out, LSD has been badly misrepresented. With new studies proving how beneficial ...

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 ...

Hey, something actually snuck onto the History Channel that's actually interesting and about history -- a connection the channel often struggles to achieve. In this case, it's an intriguing look at ...