In 1943, a chemist in Switzerland synthesized a drug that alters consciousness. His discovery changed the study of medicine, ...

Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a ...

A new study suggests that four psychoactive compounds work in surprisingly similar ways, and that they break down the ...

Long before 20th century researchers discovered monoamine oxidase inhibitors, Indigenous tribes had been making use of such ...

Despite this, the Food and Drug Administration didn’t formally review a psychedelic compound for federal regulation until ...

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"We all dropped acid and went to see Yellow Submarine. I couldn't stop laughing the whole movie" ...

Albert Hofmann calculated that one teaspoon of LSD could affect 50,000 people. He arrived at that figure after accidentally ...

Drug trials generally involve comparing a treatment with a nonactive, placebo version, an approach called "blinding" because ...

The integration process after a psychedelic session must be done with care and intention to create sustained changes.

In addition to the artificially induced LSD state, there are other, naturally occurring temporary states in which there is a collapse of the normal routines by which the mind ordinarily processes the ...