"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...

Lysergic acid dyethylamide, which you probably know as LSD, has been put to various uses since its discovery in the 1930s: scientists have tried to treat mental illness; the CIA attempted to control minds; and recreational users, well, trip...

A crew British soldiers were each given LSD-25 (Acid) while in the field for a military experiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rWnQphPdQ

In 1970, Congress dropped psychedelics into the war on drugs. After a decade of Timothy Leary, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” and news reports of gruesome murders, the federal government declared that the drugs had no medical use — and high...

On October 6th, 1966, nearly a thousand participants and three bands – including the Grateful Dead – gathered in the Panhandle of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to observe the criminalization of LSD in California and New York. Less...