LSD — casually known as acid — is a powerful hallucinogenic drug made from lysergic acid, a fungus that grows on grains like rye. You might also hear it referred to as “dots” or “lucy.” An LSD high is ...

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 ...

The overwhelming hallucinations, euphoria, and dream-like state that are the hallmarks of a lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) trip may stem from the brain going into sensory overload. That’s the ...

Psychedelic pharmaceutical company Mind Medicine (MindMed) Inc. MMEDF MMED says it found an off-switch to end a bad trip. The Toronto-based company announced it has discovered and filed a patent ...

One person’s acid trip could be another person’s anxiety therapy. That’s the tantalizing upshot from a new study that showed ...

This image shows how much more of the brain contributes to the visual experience under LSD than under placebo. (Credit: Imperial/Beckley Foundation) The psychedelic drug LSD is known for the wild ...

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 ...

For the new study, a team led by Dr. Reid Robison of Cedar Clinical Research in Draper, Utah, randomly assigned 198 adults ...

Scientists have identified a drug that appears to produce the antidepressant effects of LSD without the psychedelic side effects — at least in mice. Drugs like magic mushrooms and LSD can act as ...

Drugs such as magic mushrooms and LSD can act as powerful antidepressants. But they have other impacts, too - mind-bending side effects, for one. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a drug based on LSD that ...