Recent studies are finding that drugs such as LSD and psilocybin can help to alleviate depression, anxiety and addiction—and may have profound things to teach us about how the mind works, writes Michael Pollan.
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The Upside of LSD: This Guy Wants You to Microdose on Psychedelics
When I connect with Paul Austin via Skype, there’s nothing to suggest he’d taken a dose of psychedelic mushrooms that morning. “You dry them up, weigh them out and put them in a gelatin capsule to consume,” he says, as if we were talking about spreading cream cheese on a bagel. Austin takes a microdose […]
How psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD actually change the way people see the world
A New Understanding Psychedelic substances like LSD and psilocybin — the active ingredient in magic mushrooms — are powerful, able to transform the way that people who use them perceive the world. Because of that, after years of prohibition, psychiatric researchers in the US are hoping to take advantage of that power to transform mental health […]
