At Nick’s Garden Center and Farm Market in Aurora, it takes some searching to find the few San Pedro cacti for sale inside of the sprawling greenhouse. On Tuesday afternoon, fresh Christmas wreathes ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have published study after study evaluating the therapeutic potential of psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD. The research is so promising that despite being ...

An analysis of mummified heads and cadavers discovered on the Southern coast of Peru has pushed back the earliest known date of psychedelic cactus use and other psychoactive plants. Toxicology reports ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) yesterday warned the public about mescaline, a prohibited dangerous drug found in the cactus species Lophophora williamsii, commonly ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Psilocybin — the main psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms — is the most famous and best-studied psychedelic substance. But beyond psilocybin, there are many other psychedelic compounds, some ...

PARIS — Mind-blowing drugs are nothing new in French culture. Indeed, Simone de Beauvoir reported in The Prime of Life that Jean-Paul Sartre had a medically supervised mescaline injection in 1935, ...

Peyote, a cactus containing mescaline, is sacred to many Indigenous people. It's being threatened by over harvesting, drug decriminalization laws and psychedelic use. Members of the Native American ...

TRY to think of an area where plants haven’t benefited us and you will probably come up short. But as well as providing us with food, medicine and textiles, they are a source of psychoactive drugs.