The first time that I took LSD, I accepted three and a half tabs on my tongue from a man dressed up in a monkey suit. Despite the hot summer weather, I raided the winter wardrobe of the house I was ...

Psychedelic drugs can cause lasting effects on the brain. Just a single dose of these mind-altering substances can spur neurons to grow new offshoots called dendritic trees and branches that engage ...

LSD is an extremely potent, long-lasting psychedelic drug: A dose of just 100 micrograms is enough to send someone on a hallucinatory trip that can last a whole day. Now, scientists report that the ...

It’s no secret that LSD causes vivid hallucinations, altered states of consciousness, one-ness with the universe, and a host of other psychedelic effects. But ever since the trippy chemical was ...

They were scientists and writers in the ’40s and ’50s, mystics and musicians in the ’60s and ’70s, neo-psychedelic counter-culturalists in the ’80s and ’90s. And in the 2010s, they’re back — as ...

LSD began with an accident — a chemist absorbed a tiny amount of a compound he barely understood. What followed was a journey that would reshape science, psychology, and global culture for decades.

They were scientists and writers in the ’40s and ’50s, mystics and musicians in the ’60s and ’70s, neo-psychedelic counter-culturalists in the ’80s and ’90s. And in the 2010s, they’re back — as ...

Researchers are investigating whether the drug could be used in mainstream medicine—with and without its hallucinatory ...

I n the 1930s, the married anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead had seen themselves as scientists seeking to expand the accepted limits of “normal” human behavior, communication, and ...

Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story. “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of ...

The brains of subjects lying awake with their eyes closed, under a placebo (left) and the drug LSD (right), are seen when being examined using a functional MRI machine. Reuters Scientists for the ...

Diplo has admitted he was tripping on LSD during his appearance on CNN’s special New Year’s Eve Live broadcast. The popular music producer and DJ, 46, who was in Los Angeles to perform three New ...