Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Psilocybin is the hallucinogenic substance found in “magic mushrooms” and the subject of many studies as a potential ...

Psychedelic drug psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, is as good at reducing symptoms of depression as conventional treatment, a small, early-stage study has suggested. But when it comes to ...

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 ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Army combat veteran CJ LoConte credits psilocybin, a psychedelic substance found in “magic mushrooms,” for making him a better husband and father. A doctor first recommended ...

Not enough to draw conclusions It would be tempting to conclude from this study that psilocybin works just as well as ...

“Until it kicks in, nobody in the trial knew if they had taken psilocybin or Ritalin (the stimulant methylphenidate), which ...

York police have seized approximately 100 pounds of magic mushrooms, saying the discovery is “one of the largest psilocybin lab operations uncovered.” The street value of the seized drugs is ...

Sep. 24, 2024 — A classic psychedelic, similar to LSD, psilocybin and mescalin, was found to activate a cell type in the brain that silences other neighboring neurons, a result that provides ...

As more and more states legalize recreational marijuana, fresh questions have begun to pop up on state ballots about another mind-altering drug: magic mushrooms. Voters in two states – Oregon ...

A new study led by researchers at Columbia University and published in Psychedelics (Genomic Press, New York, USA) provides hope by revealing how the psychedelic drug psilocybin, the active ...