"You don't hear about it anymore," John Lennon said in 1980, lamenting how psilocybin mushrooms went underground. "But people are still visiting the cosmos." Like its psychedelic companions, psilocybin earned its stigma in the Sixties, after which Nixon's Controlled...

New research has shown that using “magic mushrooms” might rewire the brain, leading people to have entirely new experiences. The brain builds pathways over the course of a lifetime, and strengthens those pathways every time it uses one. That...

Psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin have been of interest to psychologists due to their ability to induce altered states of intense well-being and profound personal significance. A recent study asked people, some who were psilocybin users and others who...

The following first appeared in the MAPS Bulletin: Psychedelics have recently reemerged in mainstream culture, with novel scientific research and major media outlets making a strong case for changes in the prohibitive policies currently impeding further progress in the field...

Researchers say the drugs are much less harmful than alcohol, and banning them is a human rights issue because of their “spiritual” links.The Norwegian researchers also claim there is no link between LSD and magic mushrooms and mental health...