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

A team of scientists in California has tweaked the hallucinogenic drug LSD to make it usable to treat schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. According to the ...

This article was originally published on Psychedelic Spotlight and appears here with permission. New study suggests that a non-hallucinogenic LSD analog may hold therapeutic potential for mood ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 was synthesized in a Swiss laboratory in 1938. Early researchers called it “psychotomimetic” because it caused psychosis akin to schizophrenia. In the 1950s, the British ...

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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Half a century after Timothy Leary urged the world to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” there’s a surge of interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The psychedelic drug was ...

I n the 1930s, the married anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead had seen themselves as scientists seeking to expand the accepted limits of “normal” human behavior, communication, and ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Researchers have developed a groundbreaking version of LSD that retains the drug's brain-healing benefits without the mind-altering effects. The team at the University of California, ...

On Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the zodiac had reached their most southerly point — light was dimming on the Summer of Love. In an unassuming pad ...

NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing chicken nuggets in the lab, and a drug like LSD — without the trip. It's time ...

Diplo was “tripping” on LSD while appearing on CNN’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast Tuesday night. The DJ, 46, stunned the show’s co-hosts, Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper, as he made the admission ...