Magic mushrooms are quietly taking root across the Pacific Northwest. It happens every winter and spring when conditions are just right. After a few good rains, some cool nights, and a bit of sun, ...

Dear Doctor Cat: There are a lot of parallels between the two. After all, this is plant medicine we’re talking about (and fungi, but you get the point). There are dozens, if not hundreds, of species ...

Psilocybin, the hallucinogen in some mushroom species, has now been shown to increase the lifespan of both cells and mice. The magic happens because psilocybin slows down the senescence, or ...

Google “grow your own magic shrooms,” and you’ll find no end of YouTube tutorials, online books, and less-than-reputable websites. But cultivating these fungi containing psilocybin, a psychedelic ...

Harvesters reported a variety of reasons for collecting mushrooms. Many collected morels and chanterelles to eat, and species ...

Researchers at the Yale Program for Psychedelic Science and beyond have been exploring whether or not psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound derived from mushrooms, can be used as a treatment for ...

A suspected drug dealer in Colorado was arrested for allegedly giving a group of teenagers and pre-teens psilocybin mushrooms, also known as "magic mushrooms," causing two of them to overdose, police ...

Colorado could limit the state’s emerging magic mushroom industry to one strain and severely restrict the use of psilocybin extractions, according to the final draft of proposed natural medicine ...