Imagine a dystopian future where the United States is in its fourth year of the pandemic, Trump is “America’s CEO” for life, and you can receive MDMA-assisted psychotherapy from an app called “Freedomly”. So we can avoid this potential future, Andrew Penn emphasizes the importance of having psychedelic therapists and nurses for patient’s healing journeys.

As ayahuasca drinking emerges as a global phenomenon beyond the Amazon, one of the more curious claims about the brew that one regularly comes across is...

Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous bad trip took place in February 1935, but is it accurate to call it a bad trip when this language didn't exist yet? Gautier Dassonneville shows that Sartre's story fits into a distinct moment in French psycho-philosophy.

Jasmine Virdi interviews Jahlani Niaah, Rastafari scholar and community member, about the little-known and often misunderstood Rastafari movement. Within the psychedelic renaissance, the sacramental use of ganja by Rastafari is often overlooked. In this interview, Niaah provides a historical overview of the origins of the Rastafari movement, explaining certain key elements of Rastafari praxis, and about the sacramental use of ganja among the Rastafari.

On the road opened by the expansion of ayahuasca in urban centers, other native plants, substances, and knowledge of the Amazon rainforest came to circulate in...

As the evening fell dark, I saw 4 young indigenous students enter the round maloka ceremony space at the Temple of the Way of...

14 Questions the Global Ayahuasca Community Should Consider While Moving Forward As ayahuasca becomes increasingly popular across the world and is incorporated as a sacrament...

Is mainstreaming psychedelics a good thing? Bia Labate and Henrique Antunes use this question as inspiration for presenting a different narrative of psychedelic science and culture in their keynote address for the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research conference, held in the Netherlands June 6-8, 2024.

“Talk little”; “Don’t ask questions”; “Don’t talk at all.” This was the kind of recommendation I heard from my anthropologist friends before going on...

Starting with Mexico's first National Pharmacopeia in 1846, Nidia Olvera-Hernández traces the long history of peyote in Mexico. She shows how scientific studies throughout the twentieth-century eventually led to prohibition in 1971.