What we do — and mostly don’t — know about tiny doses of hallucinogens. By Stephie Grob Plante.

Scientific evidence of a ‘higher’ state of consciousness has been found in a study led by the University of Sussex.

He managed to get acid behind the Iron Curtain. By Angela Chen.

It may seem like a doomed attempt to mix business and pleasure. But a growing number of young professionals in Silicon Valley insist that taking small doses of psychedelic drugs simply makes them perform better at work — becoming more creative and focused. The practice, known as “microdosing”, involves taking minute quantities of drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) or mescaline (found in the Peyote cactus) every few days.

What started as a body-tinkering, mind-hacking, supplement-taking productivity craze in Silicon Valley is now spreading to more respectable workplaces, maybe even to your office, where the guy down the hall might already be popping a new breed of brain-boosting pills or micro-dosing LSD—all in the name of self-improvement. Can you afford not to keep up?

Abortion debates. The right to die. Cloning. The edges of life are also ethical fault lines, where social values clash at tectonic pressures. In a pluralistic society, it’s no surprise that these are also the sites of our most entrenched debates... By Andrew Aghapour.

Modern experts still don't agree on what caused plagues of compulsive dancing in the streets. By Marissa Fessenden. (June 24, 2016)

In 1970, Congress dropped psychedelics into the war on drugs. After a decade of Timothy Leary, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” and news reports of gruesome murders, the federal government declared that the drugs had no medical use — and high potential for abuse. The chairman of New Jersey’s Narcotic Drug Study Commission called LSD “the greatest threat facing the country today . . . more dangerous than the Vietnam War.”

Taking lysergic acid diethylamide – better known as LSD – could help people who suffer from depression to overcome their condition by preventing them from “ruminating” on past experiences. Several studies have shown that low mood is often associated with a tendency to dwell on one’s own history, yet new research indicates that LSD may inhibit the brain network that mediates this type of “mental time travel.”

My first experience with LSD was not pleasant. Six hours spent staring at bugs on London's Hampstead Heath were punctuated by a fat man calling me a prick and someone showing me a book of autopsy photos. It was harsh and boring, and I didn’t gain one new bit of insight—no secrets of the cosmos were revealed; I just learned that looking at human corpses while you’re tripping makes you feel kind of weird and upset.

McCloud surmises that most blotter art was created so manufacturers, dealers, and imbibers could identify the origins of the acid in their possession. By Margaret Rhodes.

Acid evangelists have always talked about the trip. They should have been focusing on the very real long-term benefits.

Is this how we know? Is this a sign that the Great Shift is nigh, that a glimmering New Age of feral creativity and unquenchable universal love is finally upon us?

LSD is known to cause changes in consciousness, including "ego-dissolution", or a loss of the sense of self.

Could taking LSD at work make your more productive? “You’re doing a task you normally couldn’t stand for two hours, but you do it for three or four. You eat properly. Maybe you do one more set of reps. Just a good day. That seems to be what we’re discovering” It seems unlikely, but that’s apparently what some Silicon Valley professionals have been doing - and reporting great results. According to Rolling Stone, a growing number of...

An increasing number of twenty-somethings are reportedly 'micro-dosing' on psychedelic drugs - and they say it's making them better workers

‘The Sunshine Makers’ is a new documentary that shares the untold story of the chemists-turned-criminals who altered the psychedelic world. By Michael Barron.

He stood naked by the roadside with a blanket draped around his hips, feebly reaching out for the glimmering cars as they passed in the morning light. He was almost too hideous to look at... By Michael Mason, Chris Sandel and Lee Roy Chapman. (2013)

Countless artists have experimented with the effect drugs have on their work. User whatafinethrowaway, inspired by the “Nine Drawings” series which was the result of an experiment by the US government in the 1950's, asked her friend to draw self-portraits while on LSD. The friend took 200µg of LSD and drew 11 self-portraits over nine-plus hours.