In 1943, a chemist in Switzerland synthesized a drug that alters consciousness. His discovery changed the study of medicine, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann via Getty Images In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful ...

Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a ...

Order to speed hallucinogen research hailed as ‘threshold moment’ but concerns remain over access and protections ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Psychedelics like LSD and mushrooms are losing much of their former stigma and more people are becoming curious about these ...

But after LSD spread into the larger culture, the U.S. government imposed strict restrictions on it (Dyck, 2008). By 1966, it ...

Here are four ways UC San Francisco researchers are pioneering new treatment frontiers in depression, Parkinson’s, and ...