Here are four ways UC San Francisco researchers are pioneering new treatment frontiers in depression, Parkinson’s, and ...

The federal government launched a behavioral health research initiative, with $50 million allocated to match state investments in psychedelic research, including psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound ...

For centuries, healers knew what science is only now confirming: psilocybin is a powerful healing medicine. Could magic ...

“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).

Amid a renaissance in the science of psychedelics, public interest in psilocybin — or magic mushrooms — is surging.

Lawmakers at the Capitol are weighing how far to go on legalizing magic mushrooms, with several proposals in play and strong ...

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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 ...

Psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms”, is one of the most famous molecules in modern culture. Humans have ingested it for thousands of years in ritual and recreation, and today ...

Nearly one in four Americans now believe that the use of psilocybin or “magic” mushrooms should be legal — a level of backing comparable to cannabis in the mid-1990s ahead of the introduction of ...