I recount all this as someone who still remains very optimistic about psychedelics as medical treatments and tools of spiritual exploration.

Psychedelics like LSD and mushrooms are losing much of their former stigma and more people are becoming curious about these mind-altering drugs.Photograph: Marco Allegretti/Unsplash Six years ago, on ...

When someone embarks on a psychedelic trip, they have little control over what they'll experience. A person could find themselves floating through the universe, or face-to-face with terrors that haunt ...

Fingerprints have long been the hallmark of individual identity — the loops, whorls, and arches combined into an uncommon, unique pattern. It turns out we have a similar unique signature in our brains ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Siebert is a reporter covering cannabis and psychedelic drugs. May 31, 2023, 07:00am EDT May 31, 2023, 11:31am EDT This ...

This article by Emma Stone was originally published on Microdose and appears here with permission. Do non-hallucinogenic psychedelic experiences give the same therapeutic advantages as mind-blowing ...

Recent years have seen an explosion of research into the therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs. Psychedelic drugs clearly can help with anxiety, especially end-of-life anxiety, depression and drug ...