The drug LSD developed almost 80 years ago was legally regulated as causing hallucinogenic symptoms and risk of abuse. However, recently attention is also gaining attention on positive effects, such ...

Over the last few years, the number of young people in Britain who are trying out acid has sky-rocketed. Statistics released by the crime survey of England and Wales last year suggest that the number ...

Experts have warned that LSD is making a comeback. The drug, which was favoured in the 1960s and 1970s and again in the 1990s, is seeing another resurgence. Despite recent trends for cocaine and MDMA, ...

In 1967, psychologist and psychedelics proponent Timothy Leary told a crowd in Golden Gate Park to “turn on, tune in, drop out.” It was a turning point in how the public viewed psychedelics and, in ...

On October 6th, 1966, nearly a thousand participants and three bands – including the Grateful Dead – gathered in the Panhandle of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to observe the criminalization of LSD ...

Recent analysis of federal health data suggests that the recreational use of LSD is associated with a lower likelihood of ...

A tiny tab of acid on the tongue – a daylong trip full of hallucinations and psychedelic experiences. For the first time, UNC School of Medicine researchers have discovered what the drug lysergic acid ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD or acid, has a checkered past — or, perhaps, a roiling and vibrantly colored past. Since the drug was synthesized by chemist Albert Hoffman in 1938, ...

The story of Revolver began in a night of hell and illumination. "We've had LSD," John Lennon told George Harrison. It was spring 1965. Lennon and his wife, Cynthia, and Harrison and his wife, Pattie ...

THE psychedelic era of the 1960s is remembered for its music, its art and, of course, its drugs. Its science is somewhat further down the list. But before the rise of the counterculture, researchers ...

• Psychedelic drugs, like magic mushrooms and LSD, have a fundamentally different impact on the brain than other psychoactive drugs. • Scientists are still researching the mechanisms of action of ...

There's a gateway in the middle of your brain that prevents you from fully experiencing every sense that hits you throughout the day. Called the thalamus, it sits on top of the brain stem and decides ...