On October 6th, 1966, nearly a thousand participants and three bands – including the Grateful Dead – gathered in the Panhandle of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to observe the criminalization of LSD ...

Over the last few years, the number of young people in Britain who are trying out acid has sky-rocketed. Statistics released by the crime survey of England and Wales last year suggest that the number ...

The drug LSD developed almost 80 years ago was legally regulated as causing hallucinogenic symptoms and risk of abuse. However, recently attention is also gaining attention on positive effects, such ...

Silicon Valley has a long history with psychedelics, and some of its best-known leaders have tried, like Bill Gates, Sam ...

• Psychedelic drugs, like magic mushrooms and LSD, have a fundamentally different impact on the brain than other psychoactive drugs. • Scientists are still researching the mechanisms of action of ...

There's a gateway in the middle of your brain that prevents you from fully experiencing every sense that hits you throughout the day. Called the thalamus, it sits on top of the brain stem and decides ...

THE psychedelic era of the 1960s is remembered for its music, its art and, of course, its drugs. Its science is somewhat further down the list. But before the rise of the counterculture, researchers ...

How do you comfort the dying? You could try giving them LSD. It’s not a facetious idea. In March 2014, Dr. Peter Gasser, a Swiss psychiatrist, published the results of using LSD alongside talk therapy ...

Experts have warned that LSD is making a comeback. The drug, which was favoured in the 1960s and 1970s and again in the 1990s, is seeing another resurgence. Despite recent trends for cocaine and MDMA, ...

Swiss scientists broke a four-decade-long informal ban on LSD research yesterday when they announced the results of a study in which cancer patients received the drug to curb their anxiety about death ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD or acid, has a checkered past — or, perhaps, a roiling and vibrantly colored past. Since the drug was synthesized by chemist Albert Hoffman in 1938, ...