In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Do not do LSD, children," Josh Brolin said on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' before adding, "It was the greatest thing I ever did" Josh Brolin's first taste of psychedelic drugs came early. During his Thursday ...

Margaret Mead was among the most famous scientists of the 20 th century. Despite this, however, her role in the early history of psychedelic research has gone strangely unnoticed. With her ...

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 ...

GENEVA - LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its first human guinea pig is celebrating his centenary today — in ...

A 22-year-old woman threw herself from an eighth-floor apartment in Tokyo while she was high on 1D-LSD, investigative sources ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...