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

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

I visited Peru to find out more about an intriguing ayahuasca study – and to have my own experience with the psychedelic brew. By sland.

Inside the underground movement to unleash the healing power of MDMA, ayahuasca and other hallucinogens. By Mac McClelland.

Here’s what to pack in your pipe if you just can’t shake that stress. By Miles Klee.

A young man’s mysterious disappearance in the Himalayas. By Ariel Sophia Bardi.

A neuropsychopharmacologist proved that lysergic acid diethylamide can help humans rewire themselves. By Sarah Sloat.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved large-scale clinical trials to study MDMA, the illegal party drug better known as Ecstasy, as treatment for PTSD patients. By Dave Philipps.

New Broadway play revisits a National Geographic photographer’s strange encounter while searching for the source of the Amazon. By Nina Strochlic.

A landmark pair of studies shows that giving people with depression and anxiety magic mushrooms made them better for months. By Olga Khazan.

The legalization of cannabis, LSD, MDMA, psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and the other psychedelics would indeed mean the end of society as we know it. By Charles Eisenstein.

Ayahuasca was a sacred medicine. Now it’s a global ‘it’ drug, and the trendiness is threatening the source. By Marina Lopes.

Look into my eyes: the fantastical history, mysterious healing power and emergent neuroscience of hypnosis By Erik Vance.

Study paves way for personnel such as drone operators to have electrical pulses sent into their brains to improve effectiveness in high pressure situations. By Ian Sample.

Ten years ago women in the Amazon were not allowed anywhere near the rituals. By Marina Lopes.

How ayahuasca, an ancient Amazonian hallucinogenic brew, became the latest trend in Brooklyn and Silicon Valley. By Ariel Levy.

Robert Rowland believed he received LSD while in Topeka’s Veteran’s Administration hospital more than 40 years ago. His death launched his brother Michael on a search back through America’s bizarre history of psychedelic drugs. By Joe Robertson.

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.

DMT, dimethyltryptamine, the most powerful hallucinogen known to science, is a rocket-ship to the other side of reality — and that other side is incredibly interesting! By Graham Hancock.

Author Timothy Denevi revisits Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Acosta's path through the Nevada desert to Las Vegas in search of the illusive American Dream. (May 9, 2016)