In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Half a century after Timothy Leary urged the world to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” there’s a surge of interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The psychedelic drug was ...

Psychedelics like LSD and mushrooms are losing much of their former stigma and more people are becoming curious about these mind-altering drugs.Photograph: Marco Allegretti/Unsplash Six years ago, on ...

Researchers are now testing whether psilocybin can treat severe depression without producing the hallucinogenic trip that has ...

I recount all this as someone who still remains very optimistic about psychedelics as medical treatments and tools of spiritual exploration.

Patients in the MM-120 clinical trial open the door to a nondescript Lauderhill medical facility off Oakland Park Boulevard and find themselves staring at a large seed-of-life symbol on the wall, ...