More and more people from around the globe are turning to ayahuasca, the Amazonian psychoactive tea, as a form of mental health treatment. Some...

In clinical literature, psilocybin, DMT, and MDMA receive a great deal of attention, but, as Ana Camacho shows, the same is not true for the peyote cactus and mescaline. This article looks back on the history of the psychedelic substance in Western science to understand why it is not as popular today as it was during the mid-twentieth century.

On August 14, 2020, the world bid farewell to scientific pioneer, Dr. Jordi Riba. The untimely death of the Catalan ayahuasca researcher has come...

Ayahuasca ceremonies have been recognized as both religious and therapeutic experiences by their practitioners for millennia. Today, research with this extraordinary visionary brew from...

Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacists Dr.’s Ben Malcolm and Kelan Thomas recently published a review article discussing the risks of serotonin syndrome with various serotonergic psychedelics, either alone or in combination with serotonergic antidepressants. In this article, the authors offer a short summary of their main findings.

Laughter is the reaction I often face when I tell people that my research demonstrates that MDMA enhances empathy and that ayahuasca improves creativity....

Analysis of ayahuasca DNA by geneticists confirms lineages known to traditional users that might be three different species: tucunacá, caupuri, and pajezinho. This study represents a corroboration of traditional Indigenous knowledge with Western science.

Kelan Thomas writes about a new psilocybin group therapy clinical trial for demoralized AIDS survivors that was recently published by Chacruna board member Dr. Brian Anderson.

Since the middle of the 90s, there has been a renewed interest in the possible positive effects of many different plants and substances such...

Mycologist Gastón Guzmán Huerta dedicated his life to discovering and researching mushrooms of the genus Psilocybe.