The matchup: Two doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” against a six-week course of the popular antidepressant escitalopram, often sold as Lexapro or Cipralex.

Psilocybin is the hallucinogenic substance found in “magic mushrooms” and the subject of many studies as a potential psychiatric medicine. Research suggests that psilocybin is the most ...

(CNN) — The matchup: Two doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” against a six-week course of the popular antidepressant escitalopram, often sold as Lexapro or Cipralex.

Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, pizza toppings, magic mushrooms — everyday lingo for psychedelic mushrooms seems to grow with each generation. Yet leading mycologist Paul Stamets ...

THE aerial dissemination of certain types of fungus spores has been studied intensively by plant pathologists, and the literature on spore dispersal in general has been summarized from this point ...

York police have seized approximately 100 pounds of magic mushrooms, saying the discovery is “one of the largest psilocybin lab operations uncovered.” The street value of the seized drugs is ...