In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Half a century after Timothy Leary urged the world to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” there’s a surge of interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The psychedelic drug was ...

Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story. “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of ...

On Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the zodiac had reached their most southerly point — light was dimming on the Summer of Love. In an unassuming pad ...

LSD became a large part of The Beatles' creative process. But during the recording of this one song, it almost went too far.

I n the 1930s, the married anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead had seen themselves as scientists seeking to expand the accepted limits of “normal” human behavior, communication, and ...

GENEVA - LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its first human guinea pig is celebrating his centenary today — in ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 was synthesized in a Swiss laboratory in 1938. Early researchers called it “psychotomimetic” because it caused psychosis akin to schizophrenia. In the 1950s, the British ...

Diplo says he ran a marathon while on LSD. Yes, you read that right. The 44-year-old DJ finished the Los Angeles Marathon last weekend in 3 hours and 35 minutes, he said recently on social media. In a ...

Diplo took a trip on New Year’s Eve, and we’re not just talking about the fact that he got in a chopper. The DJ admitted to tequila-drunk hosts Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper that he was under the ...

This article was originally published on Psychedelic Spotlight and appears here with permission. New study suggests that a non-hallucinogenic LSD analog may hold therapeutic potential for mood ...