This essay explores the relatonship between the recent boom in DIY (do-it-yourself) mushroom growing and the use of psychedelic mushrooms as both these topics become more mainstream.

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, Huautla de Jimenez and the Sierra Mazateca were “discovered” in 1955, when the American...

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...

It makes a difference, indeed, whether we report to the public that we are investigating a hallucinogenic drug that was spread relatively recently through...

While doing fieldwork with traditional healers in the Peruvian Amazon, I realized that their way of understanding nature was profoundly embedded within the categories...

Our new Chacruna series will highlight the global history of psychedelics. It will highlight some of the dynamic ways that historic traditions, cultures, and research spaces have contributed to the field of psychedelics, as well as raise questions about whose knowledge and expertise has been centered through time.

Chacruna invites submissions to our Global History of Psychedelics series. The ongoing series highlights the dynamic ways that historic traditions, cultures, and research spaces have contributed to the field of psychedelics. We seek submissions that explore historical topics, but may include other approaches from anthropology, philosophy, religious studies, gender & sexuality studies.

The mystical experience is likely one of the therapeutic mechanisms for psychedelics, including ayahuasca, to have therapeutic potential for drug addiction. This article explores the findings of a study in which there was a connection between ayahuasca use and smoking cessation.

We usually think about the medical systems of indigenous people in terms of plants, rituals, or shamanic chanting. But one very important health strategy...

“Proud to be drug free,” “Red Ribbon Week,” “Just Say No,” “Users are Losers”… there was no absence of anti-drug messaging surrounding my youth...