A new study compares how people's attitudes about death may change after a psychedelic drug experience versus a non-drug-related near-death experience or similar event, finding strong similarities and ...

Two distantly related groups of mushrooms take radically different routes to producing psilocybin, a mind-bending molecule. By Rachel Nuwer No one knows why magic mushrooms evolved to produce ...

Psilocybin mushrooms are the psychedelic substance most often used in the U.S., with its popularity outpacing other psychedelic drugs such as MDMA (known as ecstasy), according to a new RAND report.

It’s a modern scientific renaissance: Little more than half a century ago, psychedelics were largely outlawed, squelching emerging research into the mind-opening substances. Today, psychedelics have ...

Psilocybin-assisted therapy is legal in three states, but access has so far been limited and expensive. Dr. Bonny Koeber prepared a therapy room with sage before a patient arrived from New York for ...