After more than 10,000 years of use, the ancient cultures and indigenous communities who use plant medicines may hold lessons for today's psychedelic experience.
Read moreReligion and Psychedelics
Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Getting Stronger
Cultivators are turning to genetic sequencing and cellular-manipulation techniques to breed highly potent mushrooms—leaving some unprepared psychonauts in distress.
Read moreWestern Medicine, Indigenous Ways
This interview discusses incorporating Western medicine and Indigenous ways of knowing into the psychedelics world.
Read morePsychedelics or SSRI's?
This new research looks at the effect of psilocybin versus escitalopram on depression symptom severity in patients with moderate-to-severe major depressive disorder.
Read moreUnderstanding Risks with Psychedelics
Check out this guide on how to reduce risks with psychedelics.
Read morePsychedelics and Chronic Pain
Doctors across the country are beginning to look beyond their prescription pads to explore new treatments for chronic pain management: psychedelics.
Read moreDid the Psychedelic Research Bubble Burst?
The psychedelic renaissance is now at a point of reckoning, and the extraordinary promise of these drugs to quickly and easily transform lives for the better is starting to look more like a fever dream.
Read moreAncient History of Psychedelics
Historical documents point to psychoactive substances being used for healing purposes, but this was just one small aspect of their use.
Instead, spirit medicines played a major role in building connections within communities, sacred rituals, palliative care, exploring consciousness, facilitating creativity and hedonism.
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Read moreRisks with Psychedelics
Researchers should anticipate and track adverse effects in psychedelics research, a group of Maryland-based scientists argue in a paper recently published in Psychedelic Medicine.
For years, the field has been focused on the potential benefits of psychedelics, but the scientists argue that it’s time to pay more attention to understanding the risks.