Psychedelics

Texas Embraces Psychedelic Therapy

AUDIO – NOT JUST AUSTIN – July 14, 2025 - Texas has authorized what supporters call the nation’s largest state-funded research initiative on psychedelics, joining a handful of states that are embracing the substances... Read More...

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Single Psilocybin Trip Delivers TWO Years of Depression Relief

NO SIDE EFFECTS – June 16, 2025 - Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, might just revolutionize how depression and anxiety are treated in cancer patients. In a groundbreaking trial, a single do... Read More...

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$50 Million: Texas Launches Largest Publicly Funded Psychedelic Research in History

HOW HIGH TEXAS? – June 11, 2025 - Ibogaine is an illegal drug that has found itself in a unique position where Republicans champion it. This comes as some of them, led by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, have made it a mi... Read More...

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Eccentric English Countess Loved Psychedelics Drops

AMANDA FEILDING PASSES – June 12, 2025 - Amanda Claire Feilding Countess of Wemyss, was a pivotal and central figure in the movement to legitimize the study of psychedelic drugs for therapeutic purposes, died at 82.... Read More...

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Health Seekers Say Microdosing Psychedelics Helps Them

BETTER THAN MICRO-PLASTICS – April 17, 2025 - “I started microdosing and within a couple of months, I had a general sense of well-being that I hadn’t had in so long,” said Marine Corps combat veteran Matt Metzger. He... Read More...

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Psilocybin Gives Man 2nd Chance After 10-year Opioid Addiction

WHATEVER WORKS – April 16, 2025 - Over 10 years, Schaefer had tried recovering from what began with dependence on a prescription for the pain killer Percocet and later spiraled into an all-consuming heroin addi... Read More...

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In Memory and Praise: Dennis McDougal by Burl Barer

THE ACID KING – April 1, 2025 - Author Dennis McDougal, 77, and his wife, Sharon,76,died after a four-vehicle crash last Friday on the Interstate 10 Freeway in Desert Center, California. Dennis was not only my ... Read More...

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Psychedelic Therapy Begins – Conservatives vs. Veterans

IT’S TRIPPY – Jan. 1, 2025 - (Lane Belone poses with Pikes Peak in the background ) Colorado residents voted to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the chemical compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, in a 2... Read More...

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The C.E.O.s Are Tripping

MANTRA - Make More Money – Dec. 12, 2034 - The first order of business was a microdose, 0.25 milligrams, of psilocybin (the main psychedelic substance found in hallucinogenic mushrooms), which was child’s play compar... Read More...

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Could Psychedelics Transform Treatment for Eating Disorders?

APPETITE FOR INNOVATION – Nov. 29, 2024 - Traditional therapies, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, nutritional rehabilitation and pharmacological treatments, often have only limited success. In recent years, re... Read More...

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Will 5 States Legalize Marijuana and Psychedelics This Week?

ECSTASY ON THE BALLOT – Oct. 30, 2024 - The ballot initiatives would allow recreational marijuana use in Florida and the Dakotas, authorize medical marijuana in Nebraska, and decriminalize five natural psychedelics i... Read More...

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Use Psilocybin to Halt Relapse in Opioid Addicts?

LIKE MAGIC – Oct. 18, 2024 - The trial, led by Imperial College London, will focus on whether psilocybin – the active compound in magic mushrooms – combined with psychological support, can help to prevent relapse in ... Read More...

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Can This Psychedelic Help Cure Opioid Addiction?

TRY IT ALREADY! – Sept. 15, 2024 - The Psychedelic Assembly attracts a certain type of clientele. The walls of the group’s Manhattan meeting space are lined with LSD blotter art and Alice in Wonderland parapher... Read More...

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Magic Mushroom Candy Linked To Two Deaths

AIN’T NO MAGIC HERE–BEWARE – Sept. 7, 2024 - Nearly 160 people in the United States have become ill after consuming sweets purporting to contain traces of chemicals from magic mushrooms. More than a third of those... Read More...

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The Magic and Mystery of Psychedelic Therapies

TIM’S NOT DEAD – Aug. 26, 2024 - David Hellerstein is one of a growing number of clinicians who are investigating a potential answer: the little understood, highly promising, very illegal class of drugs known as psyc... Read More...

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$2,400,000 Study On Psychedelics For Meth Addiction Treatment

SPEED KILLS – Aug. 28, 2024 - The study aims to determine whether psychedelics, such as psilocybin, could offer a new way to treat meth addiction. Researchers will focus on understanding how these substances work ... Read More...

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Scientist Takes Psychedelic – Watches His Brain ‘Fall Apart’

AUDIO – DON’T BLAME ALBERT HOFFMAN – July 18, 2024 - Dr. Nico Dosenbach had scanned his own brain dozens of times. But this was the first time he’d taken a high dose of psilocybin, before sliding into the MRI... Read More...

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Interest in Psychedelic Microdosing Has Surged

ONE PILL MAKES YOU SMALLER... – July 1, 2024 - Public interest in microdosing marijuana and psychedelics has been spiking amid the reform movement in the United States. Google searches related to the dos... Read More...

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FDA Votes Against Medical Use of MDMA

GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD – June 5, 2024 - The decisions mark a reversal of fortune for MDMA. FDA granted the drug an expedited review process in 2017 based on encouraging early reports about its ability, in c... Read More...

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DEA Exempts Ayahuasca Import for Religious Use for Church

HIGHER POWER BARK – April 29, 2024 - An Arizona-based nonprofit has reached the first federal settlement that will exempt ayahuasca from the United States Controlled Substances Act (CSA), allowing it to ... Read More...

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FDA Opens the Door to Clinical Use of LSD

THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION – March 26, 2024 - LSD is still illegal, but recent studies show that this powerful compound is not usually dangerous if taken under controlled circumstances and that it has the potenti... Read More...

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A Psychedelics Reporter With a Changing Perspective

PRISM VISION – March 20, 2024 - As a reporter covering psychedelic medicine for the Health and Science desk at The New York Times, the drugs that often command my attention are familiar to any veteran psychona... Read More...

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Kentucky Considers Psychedelics to Treat Opioid Addiction

MY OLD KENTUCKY OM – March 13, 2024 - Kentucky’s new attorney general, Russell Coleman, has urged a commission tasked with fighting drug abuse to “step back” from a proposal to invest in a psychedelic drug as ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 19 2024Psychedelics

Single Dose of LSD Provides Immediate & Lasting Relief from Anxiety

UNLESS YOU SWALLOW IT – March 7, 2024 - Professor David Nutt, director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit at Imperial College London’s division of brain sciences, who researches psychedelics, said in an email that t... Read More...

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Ibogaine Enthusiast Explores Economic Benefits

LEGALIZE IT – March 3, 2023 - Ibogaine By David Dardashti, an organization focusing on providing ibogaine treatment to those afflicted with opiate addiction, recently visited Ohio to explore the potential economic be... Read More...

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Can You Overdose on Shrooms?

ONLY IF YOU DO TOO MANY – Feb. 26, 2024 - Are you curious about the buzz around magic mushrooms but worried about how much is too much? It’s a valid concern—after all, psilocybin mushrooms carry the potential for an ... Read More...

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Psychedelic Drugs Can Treat Addictions — Time We Got Over Moralistic Fears!

AUDIO – THEIR NOT A SLIP? – Feb. 8, 2024 - In 1933, the founder of AA, Bill Wilson, achieved his abstinence as a result of a psychedelic experience, and when LSD was made available for research in the Fifties, ... Read More...

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When America First Dropped Acid

LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS – Jan. 22, 2024 - “Timothy Leary and the Baby Boomers did not usher in the first psychedelic era,” Benjamin Breen writes in a new book. “They ended it.” One evening in Septe... Read More...

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Ukrainian Military Experimenting with Ibogaine

WAR IS HELL – Jan. 17, 2024 - Ukraine is working with a founder of the Yippie movement to provide ibogaine to soldiers on and off the battlefield. This is possibly the first study to report evidence for a single trea... Read More...

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What Is ‘California sober?’

NO COKE, NO VODKA, NO ACID – Jan. 12, 2024 - Journalist and author Michelle Lhooq described getting “California sober” by quitting every substance except marijuana and psychedelics in a 2019 Vice article. Tell... Read More...

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