Psilocybe cubensis, a mushroom that produces the psychoactive compound psilocybin. Felix Blei / Leibniz-HKI Researchers don’t know exactly how psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in psychedelic ...

A hand in a blue glove plucks a white mushroom from a dense stand of mushrooms. Mature magic mushrooms are carefully harvested to minimize damage. Credit: Filament Health Some scientists theorize that ...

Researchers developed an API from Psilocybe mushrooms, focusing on bioactive compound extraction and analysis of physicochemical and biological properties. The API showed high solubility, low toxicity ...

Mental disorders of the global population have been evaluated statistically by decades. Psilocybin has medicinal properties with potential pharmaceutical applications for treatment of psychological ...

KUALA LUMPUR: When 17-year-old Aiman (not his real name) was offered a puff of his schoolmate’s electronic vaporiser for the first time several years ago in school, he did not think twice about it. To ...

A vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Richard Vogel/AP) RIO DE JANEIRO (CN) — Touted as a natural way to sharpen focus, boost energy, ease ...

Imagine a severely depressed woman—let’s call her Amber—who just arrived at her therapist’s office. She is curious about receiving her first dose of psilocybin in a Phase 3 clinical study. Psilocybin ...

Penis envy mushrooms are a variety of mushrooms that contain the psychedelic compound psilocybin. Although some people report mental health benefits, like any other drug, they carry risks. As the name ...

"Mushrooms or magic mushrooms are not narcotic substances and cannot be treated as psychotropic substances under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act," ruled the Kerala High Court ...

The Kerala high court has said that “magic mushroom” is not a narcotic or psychotropic substance under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS). According to legal website Live Law, ...

A team of biologists, mycologists and microbiologists in the U.S., South Africa and Zimbabwe reports that a species of ...