Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, collected data about 25,622 people under community supervision between 2002 and 2007. All study participants were in the Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC)...

Scientific study often opens new doors of discovery—but sometimes it reopens doors closed long ago. On Tuesday, experimental psychiatrists in Santa Cruz, California published results from the first controlled medical trial of LSD in over 40 years. The study, published in Journal...

At 25, a friend introduced me to “Surfing Finnegans Wake,” in which a nasally man lectures for three hours, ostensibly off-the-cuff, on the psychedelic, boundary-dissolving experience of reading James Joyce. I remember thinking his voice sounded extra-terrestrial. It was Terence...

The following is a review of the book Magic Mushroom Explorer; Psilocybin and the Awakening Earth by Simon G Powell (Park Street Press, 2015). It first appeared in Psychedelic Press UK, here:  The story of the psilocybin-containing ‘magic’ mushroom, of which there are hundreds...

In addition to pioneering exploration of various psychedelics and their effects — which he has reported back on in eloquent detail — Terence Mckenna was in many ways a philosopher. His ability to splice together Western and Eastern philosophies...