Psilocybin, or "magic mushrooms," is a psychedelic medicine used for thousands of years by indigenous peoples for its healing properties. Many people hear “magic mushrooms” and imagine the 1960’s ...

The DEA has forwarded a petition to change the federal regulatory classification for psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in "magic mushrooms," to HHS for a medical and scientific review. The ...

New Mexico’s Medical Psilocybin Act signals more than therapeutic access. It reflects a policy evolution, one where lawmakers, not just voters, are beginning to treat psychedelic medicine as a ...

A new study suggests that the long-term antidepressant effects of psychedelics may be driven by persistent changes in how neurons fire rather than by the permanent growth of new brain cell connections ...

“We are in the middle of a rapidly evolving cultural, media, and legal landscape when it comes to psychedelics,” says Nora D. Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in so-called magic mushrooms, is emerging as one of the most intriguing tools in modern psychiatry, not because it numbs symptoms but because it appears to ...

A hand in a blue glove plucks a white mushroom from a dense stand of mushrooms. Mature magic mushrooms are carefully harvested to minimize damage. Credit: Filament Health Some scientists theorize that ...