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.

Earlier this year, Julian Mattucci, also known as “God Emperor Myco,” was creating new generations of spores from some Psilocybe subtropicalis mushrooms that he had procured online from a ...

Not enough to draw conclusions It would be tempting to conclude from this study that psilocybin works just as well as commonly described antidepressants in the long term. Unfortunately, the data ...

In an era where self-sufficiency and the quest for natural well-being are more pertinent than ever, cultivating medicinal, therapeutic, hallucinogenic, or psychedelic mushrooms (containing psilocybin ...

This Insight discusses what psilocybin is, how it is used, and various state and local laws that either decriminalize and/or legalize its use, or make the enforcement of its illegality a low priority.

When psychedelic-assisted therapy becomes available in Colorado next year, the state will be just the second in the U.S. to regulate the production and use of psilocybin mushrooms. Oregon was the ...