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Bill Gates Remembers Taking LSD as a Teen — and How It Didn't Wear Off by the Time He Went to the Dentist

“Part of the trip was exhilarating,” Gates admits — but it was less fun the following day, when he was still “feeling its effects” during dental surgery In his debut memoir Source Code — which will be ...
NPR

Bicycle Day marks an unofficial commemoration of the first use of LSD

Among psychedelic enthusiasts, April 19 or Bicycle Day honors a mind-altering ride taken by the Swiss chemist who created LSD. Bicycle Day marks a hallucinogenic ride that's considered the birth of ...
Los Angeles Times

Margaret Mead wanted to save the world through LSD. The government had other ideas

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 ...
NPR

'One and done' dose of LSD keeps anxiety at bay

A rigorous new study finds that a single dose of LSD can ease anxiety and depression for months. The study involved 198 adults with generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, a disabling form of anxiety ...
USA Today

One dose of LSD provides weeks of anxiety relief, study finds

A mid-stage study of a pharmaceutical version of the psychedelic LSD reported the drug might help alleviate anxiety symptoms for up to three months, advancing a potential treatment for the most common ...
ABC News

LSD shows early promise as a potential anxiety treatment

The study enrolled 198 adults with anxiety at 22 sites across the U.S. Once a symbol of 1960s counterculture, the drug lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD, is emerging from research labs ...
Wane

LSD shows promise for reducing anxiety in drugmaker’s midstage study

WASHINGTON (AP) — LSD reduced symptoms of anxiety in a midstage study published Thursday, paving the way for additional testing and possible medical approval of a psychedelic drug that has been banned ...