People Who Took Psychedelic Mushrooms Say They Lost Control of Their Bodies
Wood Lover Forget a bad trip — in rare cases, eating psychedelic mushrooms could lead to partial paralysis, experts say. According to Insider, some people who've taken "magic" psilocybin-producing...
View ArticleThis Edible QR Tag Looks like a Big Ol' Hit of Acid
A new "edible QR code" that aims to determine whether you're drinking counterfeit liquor bears a striking resemblance to the preferred dosing method of the world's most famous psychedelic drug. As...
View ArticleThis Therapeutic VR Experience is Just Like Tripping on Acid
David Glowacki, an artist and computational molecular physicist who suffered a life-changing near death experience, has reportedly developed a virtual reality experience called Isness-D that works just...
View ArticleEvidence Is Growing That LSD Improves Learning and Memory
Evidence is growing that lysergic acid diethylamide — the psychedelic drug better known as LSD or by various street names like "acid" — has significant cognitive benefits. Previous findings have...
View ArticleChurch Sues Cops, Saying Psychedelics Are Its Sacrament
A psychedelic church is suing the city of Oakland and its police department for infringing upon their right to get high — as a religious sacrament, that is. As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, the...
View ArticleStudy Finds LSD Therapy Strikingly Effective at Reducing Anxiety and Depression
According to new research, psychedelic-assisted therapy could be a surprisingly effective and long-lasting treatment for anxiety and depression-related symptoms. As detailed in a new study published in...
View ArticleElon Musk Has Reportedly Been Telling Friends About Benefits of Shrooms and MDMA
It's no secret that Tesla CEO Elon Musk likes to let loose sometimes, in a respite between extremely long work days and an infamously packed schedule. From lavish weekend-long parties to attending...
View ArticleTaking Psilocybin Just Once Eases Treatment-Resistant Depression in Study
Building on the growing body of work surrounding "magic mushrooms" that produce the psychoactive compound psilocybin, a new study suggests that just one dose of a synthetically-made version can help...
View ArticleFormer CEO Sues Company That Fired Him for Microdosing LSD in an Investor...
A former Silicon Valley startup CEO and cofounder has filed a lawsuit against his former employer for what he says was discrimination based on race and his mental health challenge — though the...
View ArticleGrocery Stores Alarmed by Spinach Giving Dozens of Customers Hallucinogenic...
Grocery stores have been forced to recall prepackaged salad mixes after tons of people got sick from a baby spinach mix that gave some of them freakin' hallucinations, man. As Melbourne, Australia's...
View ArticleStartup Trying to Test Whether People on DMT Experience a Shared Alien Universe
Known as the "spirit molecule" to psychedelics enthusiasts, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is said to produce vivid and strangely similar hallucinations for many who take it. Now, a new extended-state...
View ArticlePioneering Psychedelics Researcher Gets Terminal Cancer, Is Totally Chill
One of the world's foremost psychedelics researchers is taking an inspiring approach to the knowledge of his impending death — by treating it as a beautiful, transcendental mystery. "We all know that...
View ArticlePsychedelics Researcher Enlists AI Artist to Draw Beings They Met While...
Psychonaut Encounters Artificial intelligence has opened new doors for psychedelics enthusiasts to show the world the beautiful realms they inhabit when tripping. As Vice reports, veteran psychedelics...
View ArticleMeet the AI Researcher Building His Own AGI
In the world of machine learning, few experts are as prominent — or flashy, judging by his incredible leopard print hat — as Ben Goertzel, the Brazilian-American founder of the research group...
View ArticleStartups Have a Fun New Idea: Workplace Ketamine Sessions
Office vibes a little off? We've all been there — and some workplaces, apparently, have bad energy to the degree that they're turning towards ketamine as a vibe cure. You can't make this up. According...
View ArticleUS Treasury Secretary Says She Didn't Know the Mushrooms She Ate Were...
Cool Trip When US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was reported to have eaten hallucinogenic mushrooms during a recent trip to China, it raised a peculiar question: Did she get high? Sadly — at least...
View ArticleFDA Warns That a Lot of "Ketamine Therapy" Seems to Just Be Partying
Shocking news: all that "ketamine therapy" that your buddy has been doing might really just be partying, actually. Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic known for its psychedelic effects, has had a big...
View ArticlePeople Who Take Magic Mushrooms Have Better Sex, Scientists Find
Along with their bedfellow rock n' roll, sex and drugs have always paired famously well. But as a new study suggests, the sex lives of shroom-eaters may improve, even after they've worn off. In a press...
View ArticleTherapists Warn That Taking Magic Mushrooms for Treatment Can Lead to...
As far as mind-altering substances are concerned, psilocybin is considered one of the safer ones — but according to practitioners who administer them therapeutically, the emotional effects of magic...
View ArticleScientist Takes High Dose of Psilocybin, Clambers Into MRI Machine to Scan...
Nico Dosenbach, an associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, got to find out firsthand what happens to the brain when it's on psychedelics. For science,...
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