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By Sandee LaMotte | CNN Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, pizza toppings, magic mushrooms — everyday lingo for psychedelic mushrooms seems to grow with each generation. Yet leading mycologist Paul Stamets believes it’s time for fans…

As It Happens6:39People were using psychedelic drugs in Bronze Age Europe, study findsPeople have been using mind-altering substances for a long, long time.While archaeologists and historians have long suspected that people in Bronze Age…

On April 13, the 15 people who will advise Colorado regulators on the rollout of legal psychedelics will meet and speak in public for the first time since they were appointed by Gov. Jared Polis. The members of the Natural Medicine Advisory…

COKEDALE — Jack Van Heesch experimented hard with all sorts of psychedelics back in the day. “It was a party,” said the full-bearded, 66-year-old resident of this former Colorado mining town perched in the shadows of the Spanish Peaks in…

“For the actual patient, it might be $25,000, $30,000 for a treatment,” said Dr Stephen Bright, a senior lecturer at Edith Cowan University and director of the charity Psychedelic Research In Science & Medicine.“I honestly don’t think,…

A political action committee (PAC) created to advocate for psychedelic medicine use in the country aims to elect leaders to support pro-psilocybin reforms.  NBC News reported Monday that the newly created Psychedelic Medicine PAC…

'The shaman poured the dense, black liquid and summoned us forward individually. It tasted disgusting, it smelt vile but it felt good to drink.'It soon kicked in. I was locked in a prison. Then the door flew open. It was my dad, dressed as…

According to a new study, a more mystical and insightful psychedelic drug experience may be linked to a long-term reduction in anxiety and depression symptoms. The research was published online recently in the Journal of Affective…

On the streets, the hallucinogenic drug goes by the names Special K, K, KitKat, Cat Valium, Super Acid, Special La Coke, Purple, Jet, and Vitamin K. Medically, ketamine has been used for decades as an anesthetic and painkiller,…

OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May wants Canada to consider expanding access to psychedelics as medical treatments. May was among the MPs who joined a delegation of patients and health-care…