A patient in Austria has become the first case of a man cutting off his own penis after a "magic" mushroom-induced psychotic break. Denver Post via Getty Images A man in Austria reportedly ...

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.

There’s a growing market for gummies, chocolates, and other products that claim to contain psychedelic mushrooms and promise consumers a new—and legal—way to get high. Psilocybin ...

Psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, remains illegal federally and in the state of California. But in Los Angeles’ growing illicit market, Personalized Wellbeing and ...

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 ...

Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Psilocybin is the hallucinogenic substance found in “magic mushrooms” and the subject of many studies as a potential ...

But what is really needed is a comparison of the long-term effect of psilocybin with another treatment (an antidepressant) or a placebo. Ideally, neither participants nor staff should be aware of ...

When he first returned to Michigan, he proposed a ballot initiative to decriminalize the use of magic mushrooms in the city, which passed overwhelmingly in 2021. Then he acquired the historic ...