While dosing is the most significant determinant, other psychological and pharmacological factors also play a critical role. A positive mood before drug intake was strongly linked to elevated ratings ...

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

Just weeks after a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial found psilocybin microdosing to be no different to placebo, another study has been published that found LSD microdoses have no effect on mood ...

A new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology provided results from one of the first modern clinical investigations of its kind to compare the effects of psychedelic drugs lysergic acid ...

Reported benefits of microdosing may be due to the placebo effect. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. People who microdose, or take ...

A new peer-reviewed study compared the effects of LSD and psilocybin, two substances currently standing as top molecules behind the recent psychedelic medicine boom. While both compounds have a rich ...

Bill Gates opened up about his past drug use in his memoir, "Source Code: My Beginnings." Gates said he tried LSD as a young man despite what Steve Jobs may have thought years ago. During his "trips," ...

There is such a thing as a bad trip. But how long do the effects of an LSD overdose last? And are they always so terrible? Now, by analyzing the bizarre accidental overdoses of three women, scientists ...

Previous studies have shown that the hallucinogenic effects of LSD are mediated to a large extent by the signaling pathway involving the β-arrestin-2 protein. Thus, it is possible that compounds that ...

According to Amanda Feilding, one tenth of what's considered a full dose of LSD is enough to make her feel "sparkly." As the founder and director of the UK-based nonprofit Beckley Foundation, Feilding ...

“The mind—that seven inches of in ner space between the root of the nose and the occiput— our prized possession; its study on every level is most important,” says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen ...