Psychedelics

Dad was Consumed by Alcoholism and Anger. I Hoped Psychedelic Therapy Could Change Him.

NEVER GIVE UP – April 2026 - I’d been taken in by all the public talk of mushrooms and their “sacred” and “transcendental” use; of their remedial power, which seemed to arouse an idiosyncratic “mystical consciousness... Read More...

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New Mexico Will Fund Psychedelic Treatment

HIGH TIMEs – Mar. 17, 2026 - The funding represents a big step forward in the state’s efforts to integrate psychedelic-assisted therapies into its broader behavioral health infrastructure. And the formal allocation o... Read More...

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Are psychedelics better than antidepressants? NO!

JUST MORE FUN – Mar. 18, 2026 - Psychedelic-assisted therapy may be no more effective than traditional antidepressants when patients know what drugs they are actually taking, according to a first-of-its kind analysis... Read More...

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Why Do Mind-Altering Drugs Make People Feel Better?

AUDIO – THEY ARE MAGICAL – Mar. 13, 2026 - A chemical neuroscientist named David Olson, then a graduate student at Stanford, told me that he encountered these studies and was “struck by the ability of a substance, wi... Read More...

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Psychedelics, Sobriety, and Belonging

TRIPPING SOBERLY – Jan. 13, 2026 - Historically, it has been a refuge, resistance, and chosen family – spaces where safety, visibility, and connection were possible when they weren’t elsewhere. Substances, for many, ... Read More...

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From Mushroom Trip or Cosmic Ride to Therapeutic Healing

UN-STUCK – Jan. 18, 2026 - Today, the key scientific and regulatory question is shifting away from if psilocybin could produce major durable improvements in depression and anxiety—because we’ve already come close to ... Read More...

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’Shrooms Lead the Pack in Psychedelic Medicine

TIMOTHY LEARY’S DEAD? – Jan. 13, 2026 - In the billion-dollar race to commercialize psychedelic medicine, psilocybin, a naturally occurring hallucinogen better known as magic mushrooms, or “shrooms,” has decisively p... Read More...

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Should NHS Use Magic Mushrooms to Treat Depression?

SHOULD YOU? – Jan. 2, 2026 - Larissa Hope believes psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, helped her through a difficult mental health condition. Back when she was 17 and starting out as an actress,... Read More...

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Study Details How Legal Psychedelics Can Treat Depression and Anxiety

WORTH A TRY? – Dec. 9, 2025 - Results showed meaningful gains across the board. Depression scores fell by an average of 4.6 points, shifting participants from moderate to mild severity. Anxiety dropped by 4.8 p... Read More...

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Exploring Psychedelics For PTSD treatment

VIDEO – GUIDED TRIPS – Nov. 7, 2025 - More American veterans die by suicide each day than the average daily combat deaths during the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars combined, California Governor Gavin Newsom rece... Read More...

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Governor Signs Bill to Study Psychedelics for PTSD & Better Mental Health

CRAZY NOT TO – Oct. 16, 2025 - The nonprofit organization Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions (VETS) is a big believer in the power of psychedelic therapies such as ibogaine, which co-founder and former Navy SEAL ... Read More...

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AI Makes a Psychedelic Without the Trip

AUDIO – HIGH POSSIBILITIES – Sept. 24, 2025 - Mindstate Design Labs is one of a slate of new companies aiming to make safer psychedelics by removing the classic “trip” associated with them. The company is using AI to... Read More...

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Psychedelic Therapy Crashed and Burned

LEGALIZE THEM ALL – July 29, 2025 - Last year, prescription MDMA looked like a sure thing. After decades of clinical research, political wrangling, and aggressive promotion, the popular underground club drug wa... Read More...

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Texas Embraces Psychedelic Therapy

AUDIO – NOT JUST AUSTIN – July 14, 2025 - Texas has authorized what supporters call the nation’s largest state-funded research initiative on psychedelics, joining a handful of states that are embracing the substances... Read More...

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Single Psilocybin Trip Delivers TWO Years of Depression Relief

NO SIDE EFFECTS – June 16, 2025 - Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, might just revolutionize how depression and anxiety are treated in cancer patients. In a groundbreaking trial, a single do... Read More...

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$50 Million: Texas Launches Largest Publicly Funded Psychedelic Research in History

HOW HIGH TEXAS? – June 11, 2025 - Ibogaine is an illegal drug that has found itself in a unique position where Republicans champion it. This comes as some of them, led by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, have made it a mi... Read More...

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Eccentric English Countess Loved Psychedelics Drops

AMANDA FEILDING PASSES – June 12, 2025 - Amanda Claire Feilding Countess of Wemyss, was a pivotal and central figure in the movement to legitimize the study of psychedelic drugs for therapeutic purposes, died at 82.... Read More...

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Health Seekers Say Microdosing Psychedelics Helps Them

BETTER THAN MICRO-PLASTICS – April 17, 2025 - “I started microdosing and within a couple of months, I had a general sense of well-being that I hadn’t had in so long,” said Marine Corps combat veteran Matt Metzger. He... Read More...

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Psilocybin Gives Man 2nd Chance After 10-year Opioid Addiction

WHATEVER WORKS – April 16, 2025 - Over 10 years, Schaefer had tried recovering from what began with dependence on a prescription for the pain killer Percocet and later spiraled into an all-consuming heroin addi... Read More...

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In Memory and Praise: Dennis McDougal by Burl Barer

THE ACID KING – April 1, 2025 - Author Dennis McDougal, 77, and his wife, Sharon,76,died after a four-vehicle crash last Friday on the Interstate 10 Freeway in Desert Center, California. Dennis was not only my ... Read More...

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Psychedelic Therapy Begins – Conservatives vs. Veterans

IT’S TRIPPY – Jan. 1, 2025 - (Lane Belone poses with Pikes Peak in the background ) Colorado residents voted to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the chemical compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, in a 2... Read More...

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The C.E.O.s Are Tripping

MANTRA - Make More Money – Dec. 12, 2034 - The first order of business was a microdose, 0.25 milligrams, of psilocybin (the main psychedelic substance found in hallucinogenic mushrooms), which was child’s play compar... Read More...

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Could Psychedelics Transform Treatment for Eating Disorders?

APPETITE FOR INNOVATION – Nov. 29, 2024 - Traditional therapies, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, nutritional rehabilitation and pharmacological treatments, often have only limited success. In recent years, re... Read More...

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Will 5 States Legalize Marijuana and Psychedelics This Week?

ECSTASY ON THE BALLOT – Oct. 30, 2024 - The ballot initiatives would allow recreational marijuana use in Florida and the Dakotas, authorize medical marijuana in Nebraska, and decriminalize five natural psychedelics i... Read More...

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Use Psilocybin to Halt Relapse in Opioid Addicts?

LIKE MAGIC – Oct. 18, 2024 - The trial, led by Imperial College London, will focus on whether psilocybin – the active compound in magic mushrooms – combined with psychological support, can help to prevent relapse in ... Read More...

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Can This Psychedelic Help Cure Opioid Addiction?

TRY IT ALREADY! – Sept. 15, 2024 - The Psychedelic Assembly attracts a certain type of clientele. The walls of the group’s Manhattan meeting space are lined with LSD blotter art and Alice in Wonderland parapher... Read More...

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Magic Mushroom Candy Linked To Two Deaths

AIN’T NO MAGIC HERE–BEWARE – Sept. 7, 2024 - Nearly 160 people in the United States have become ill after consuming sweets purporting to contain traces of chemicals from magic mushrooms. More than a third of those... Read More...

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The Magic and Mystery of Psychedelic Therapies

TIM’S NOT DEAD – Aug. 26, 2024 - David Hellerstein is one of a growing number of clinicians who are investigating a potential answer: the little understood, highly promising, very illegal class of drugs known as psyc... Read More...

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$2,400,000 Study On Psychedelics For Meth Addiction Treatment

SPEED KILLS – Aug. 28, 2024 - The study aims to determine whether psychedelics, such as psilocybin, could offer a new way to treat meth addiction. Researchers will focus on understanding how these substances work ... Read More...

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Scientist Takes Psychedelic – Watches His Brain ‘Fall Apart’

AUDIO – DON’T BLAME ALBERT HOFFMAN – July 18, 2024 - Dr. Nico Dosenbach had scanned his own brain dozens of times. But this was the first time he’d taken a high dose of psilocybin, before sliding into the MRI... Read More...

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