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Scientists engineered tobacco plants to produce five mind-altering psychedelic compounds

Nature can be pretty trippy, with mind-altering psychedelics coming from all sorts of wild sources. Certain mushrooms produce ...

Scientists Gene Hacked a Plant So It Grows Five Types of Psychoactive Drugs at Once

From the psilocybin in magic mushrooms to dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in toads to the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana, a ...

Here's what psychedelics actually do to the brain

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs.
Los Angeles Times

A champion of psychedelics who includes a dose of skepticism

Ernesto Londoño’s engrossing and unsettling new book, “Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics,” is part memoir, part work of journalism. It tells of how Londoño sought relief from ...
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Will psychedelic stocks have a trippy ride under RFK Jr.?

Psychedelic drugs have a long and controversial history. Now, they could be nearing the first FDA approval with support from ...