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The Veterans Administration launched a five-site psilocybin trial for veterans with treatment-resistant depression. The drug it runs on belongs to Compass Pathways, which donated it and is preparing an approval...

Veterans deserve access to every safe, effective treatment available. HHS and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are partnering to accelerate research, clinical development, and future deployment of FDA-approved psychedelic...

World’s Largest Pharmaceutical Company, Eli Lilly, Acquires 5-MeO-DMT Developer AtaiBeckley for Up to $3.8 billion This morning, Eli Lilly confirmed that it will acquire AtaiBeckley, following rumours circulated in Bloomberg...

For more than 50 years, cann*bis was placed in the same federal category as hero*n. Now that category has changed. After decades of debate, the federal government has moved mar*juana...

The brilliant, wonderful and indomitable Timothy Leary. Richard Nixon called him “the most dangerous man in America.” Allen Ginsberg said Leary was “a hero of American consciousness.”They were both right....

On June 12, 1970 pitcher Dock Ellis became a baseball legend when he threw a no-hitter under the influence of LSD. Competitive sports are not normally a playing field for...

A quarter-century after Terence McKenna’s death, his daughter Klea McKenna is building the archive his legacy deserves — and confronting a storage unit she hadn’t opened in 25 years. Contents...

DMT users consistently report encounters with apparently autonomous, intelligent non-human entities in elaborate alternate worlds. Neuroscience calls this hallucination, but a new preprint by researchersAndrew Gallimore, Donald Hoffman, and Niffe...

While psilocybin has dominated mainstream medical headlines for depression, clinical research has confirmed that LSD share a nearly identical therapeutic foundation. However, LSD possesses unique pharmacological and temporal traits that...

A groundbreaking bill is now waiting for the governor's signature to become law. It will create a first-of-its-kind Ibogaine research pilot program, paving the way for Colorado to study the...

New research in Translational Psychiatry reveals that the psychedelic DMT provides rapid, robust antidepressant effects that may surpass traditional SSRIs. In a study using chronic stress models, a single dose...

Music in psychedelic-assisted therapy is often treated like a playlist problem. Find something beautiful. Avoid obvious lyrics. Press play. But anyone who has sat in the room knows it is...

Do not use AI to identify mushrooms ppl. Mushroom identification requires more than just a visual identification. You need to smell, touch, taste(chew and spit is fine for even deadly)...

Recent research indicates that daily cannabis use in the United States has increased significantly, in some cases surpassing daily alcohol consumption among certain groups. This shift reflects changing laws, increased...