17 May 13 | Ashik Siddique, Medical Daily
It seems that young Americans today are as apt to use substances like LSD and psilocybin during their lifetimes as their baby boomer parents were in their heyday.

1 May 13 | Vanessa Grigoriadis, New York Magazine
The synthetic drugs being invented, refined, and produced today – and often shipped in from China – would have blown Timothy Leary’s mind. Who knows what they’re doing to the brains of users.

19 Apr 13 | David E. Nichols, MAPS
The renowned pharmacologist and founder of the Heffter Research Institute explains the history and potential future of LSD while explaining how it affects the brain.

7 Mar 13 | Teafaerie, Erowid
Do psychedelics increase the potential for telepathic experiences? along with a whole-hearted affirmative yelp, performing such magic on command, can be problematic.

13 Feb 13 | Taras Grescoe, The Globe and Mail
Why science is seeking a pardon for psychedelics.

7 Feb 13 | David Luke, International Journal of  Transpersonal Studies
This comprehensive review is primarily concerned with extrasensory perception (ESP) – telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance – as well as out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and near-death experiences (NDEs). PDF.

17 Dec 12 | Jim McAllister, Psychedelic Press UK
Psychedelic compounds can be found throughout a range of different groups of flora. It is surprising to think that so few of these plants are actually discussed or experienced within drug circles in the Western World.

5 Dec 12 | Erik Davis, Aeon
A new generation of researchers is heading into the weird world of psychedelic drugs. It could change their minds.

28 Nov 12 | YouTube
Dr. Oliver Sacks talks about how hallucinogenic drugs helped him empathize with his patients. His latest book Hallucinations has just been published. Video.

1 Nov 11 | Jim McAllister, Psychedelic Press UK
Neurotransmitters for smiles and therapy.

21 Sep 12 | Scott A. McGreal, Psychology Today
Recent research suggests fascinating connections between the effects of psilocybin and personality traits related to inner experience. Personality appears to influence response to psilocybin and psilocybin can promote changes in personality.

7 Aug 12 | Oliver Genn-Bash, PsypressUK
Taoist philosophy may ultimately provide us with a framework through which to understand the psychedelic experience in a constructive manner, whereby we may be able to examine various seemingly intuitive revelations through a certain lens.

19 Jul 12 | Umit Sayin, NeuroQuantology
A comparative review of the neuro-psychopharmacology of hallucinogen-induced altered states of consciousness. PDF download.

14 Jul 12 | KFC, technology review
The Web is filled with users’ descriptions of the effects of psychedelic drugs. Now neuroscientists are using data-mining techniques to quantify the effects of these drugs on human consciousness.

1 Jul 12 | Terra Cronshey, Catalyst
An interview with Mitch Schultz, director of DMT: The Spirit Molecule.

27 Jun 12 | Teafaerie, Erowid
Could the Internet be a metaphor for psychedelic experience. Is DMT-accessed hyperspace a catalyst for rapid acceleration of human evolution, a mere artifact of internal exploration, or could something else entirely be going on?

17 Jun 12 | Adam Halberstadt, Mark Geyer, Scientific American
New evidence suggests drugs like LSD open the doors of perception by inhibiting parts of the brain.

9 Jun 12 | Kevin Murray, Psychedelic Press UK
The essay examines the role of psychoactive plants, potions, and incense in the formations of alchemical practice through Western civilization, from ancient Mesopotamia to Alexandria.

5 Jun 12 | Nikita Kansra, Cynthia W. Shih, The Harvard Crimson
A look back at Timothy Leary’s and Richard Alpert’s psychedelic research projects in the early 1960s, and the fatal ending after a most promising start. To complete the review here’s Andrew Weil’s article in Look, November 1963.

26 May 12 | James Oroc, Reality Sandwich
The more a compound disrupts the Ego, the physically safer (less toxic) that compound will be, while the more a ‘drug’ reinforces and inflates the sense of Ego, the more physically harmful (toxic) that compound will be.