While we know that cannabis is psychoactive and psychotropic, affecting the mind and perception of users, could it be psychedelic? All drugs are psychoactive, but not all psychoactive drugs are ...

How much of a problem is it if participants in psychedelic clinical trials can easily tell they have been given a placebo? New Zealand researcher Suresh Muthukumaraswamy suggests it is a big problem ...

With psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy on the cusp of broad clinical approval in the United States, there is a new pressing need to understand exactly which patients may be best suited to this novel ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Emily Earlenbaugh covers cannabis science and culture. A recent review of the scientific literature looked into this question and ...

A single psychedelic experience can change the way the brain forms memories, and new research may explain how. A recent study from the University of Kentucky investigated how the psychedelic compound ...

New research in animal models show it's possible to create a compound that hits the same exact target as psychedelic drugs hit -- the 5-HT2A serotonin receptors on the surface of specific neurons -- ...

In 1857, the American writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow described his experiences with hashish in his memoir The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean: “It is this process of ...

The role of serendipity in medical discovery is well known, including in psychiatry, in which it accounts for the discovery of most current major drug categories. This principle extends to ketamine ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as a high-contrast black-and-white optical illusion made ...