LSD or acid has been used as a psychedelic by the hippies since the 60s, but it also has been experimented with by the CIA in ...

The drug LSD developed almost 80 years ago was legally regulated as causing hallucinogenic symptoms and risk of abuse. However, recently attention is also gaining attention on positive effects, such ...

Over the last few years, the number of young people in Britain who are trying out acid has sky-rocketed. Statistics released by the crime survey of England and Wales last year suggest that the number ...

Experts have warned that LSD is making a comeback. The drug, which was favoured in the 1960s and 1970s and again in the 1990s, is seeing another resurgence. Despite recent trends for cocaine and MDMA, ...

A tiny tab of acid on the tongue – a daylong trip full of hallucinations and psychedelic experiences. For the first time, UNC School of Medicine researchers have discovered what the drug lysergic acid ...

On October 6th, 1966, nearly a thousand participants and three bands – including the Grateful Dead – gathered in the Panhandle of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to observe the criminalization of LSD ...

Silicon Valley has a long history with psychedelics, and some of its best-known leaders have tried, like Bill Gates, Sam ...

The story of Revolver began in a night of hell and illumination. "We've had LSD," John Lennon told George Harrison. It was spring 1965. Lennon and his wife, Cynthia, and Harrison and his wife, Pattie ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD or acid, has a checkered past — or, perhaps, a roiling and vibrantly colored past. Since the drug was synthesized by chemist Albert Hoffman in 1938, ...

• Psychedelic drugs, like magic mushrooms and LSD, have a fundamentally different impact on the brain than other psychoactive drugs. • Scientists are still researching the mechanisms of action of ...

There's a gateway in the middle of your brain that prevents you from fully experiencing every sense that hits you throughout the day. Called the thalamus, it sits on top of the brain stem and decides ...