"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...
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...
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...