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 ...

While drug-induced mystical experiences can have benefits, research suggests they may not be enough to create lasting change.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Silicon Valley has a long history with psychedelics. Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and OpenAI's Sam Altman have talked publicly about ...

In a mountain town about three hours outside of Mexico City, I sat on the floor of a thatched-roof palapa with blankets wrapped around me as a facilitator (both a researcher and medicine woman) sang ...

LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938. He discovered its powerful psychoactive effects in 1943 after accidentally ingesting a small amount and experiencing vivid ...

Disclosuree Michiel van Elk receives funding from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO; grant id# VI.Vidi.191.107). He is affiliated as board member with Open Foundation ...

Comedian and best-selling author Chelsea Handler told Jimmy Kimmel that she celebrated her 50th birthday earlier this year skiing while microdosing LSD. She told the late night talk host on his ...

A growing body of neuroscience research is converging on a counterintuitive idea: the disorderly brain activity triggered by LSD might actually work against the hyper-synchronized neural firing that ...