A Nimbin farmer is warning foragers he has sprayed magic mushrooms in his fields with herbicide. In Australia taking magic mushrooms or psilocybin is illegal, except for medical treatment for certain ...

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An international collaboration led by Cornell researchers used a combination of psilocybin and the rabies virus to map how—and where—the psychedelic compound rewires the connections in the brain.

New Jersey legislators on Monday took another step toward legalizing psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound found in some mushrooms that supporters consider a breakthrough therapy bound to transform ...

Psilocybe cubensis, a mushroom that produces the psychoactive compound psilocybin. Felix Blei / Leibniz-HKI Researchers don’t know exactly how psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in psychedelic ...

Scientists found that the magic behind so-called “magic mushrooms”—psilocybin, a psychedelic compound—has evolved at least twice in mushrooms, and in very different ways. Researchers in Germany and ...

Using psychedelic mushrooms in a “real world” setting under Oregon’s first-in-the-nation legal program leads to significant improvements in depression and anxiety, according to preliminary results of ...

There is an urgent need for improved treatments for postpartum depression in humans. Dosing mice with psilocybin did not alleviate stress responses and depressive behavior in mice that had recently ...

Psilocybe cubensis grows worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions, including Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. The mushroom prefers moist, fertilizer-rich soils and contains ...

If you’re a coward and don’t want to munch on awful-tasting shrooms to go on a psychedelic odyssey, you can buy delicious edibles infused with their active ingredient instead: psilocybin. But maybe ...

U.S. service members may be drug-tested for suspected use of “magic mushrooms” under a new policy announced by the Pentagon last week. A memo issued Aug. 18 by the Office of the Under Secretary of ...

A single dose of the psychedelic compound psilocybin could be enough to remodel connections of specific brain networks, which may explain how the drug helps to treat some mental health conditions.