MOST typically, medical research has proceeded from clinical observation to clinical investigation to laboratory experiment. Some of the striking exceptions to this pattern have been studies of a ...

Bicycle day's just around the corner, but it's not what you think. This isn't a holiday honoring your favorite two wheeled, environmentally friend vehicle - it's about the day chemist Albert Hoffman ...

Bicycle Day, celebrated annually on April 19, commemorates the world’s first recorded LSD trip, in 1943. That’s when Swiss ...

Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. What exactly happens to the brain on psychedelic drugs? A small new study, published in the journal Current Biology, peeked ...

A tiny tab of acid on the tongue – a daylong trip full of hallucinations and psychedelic experiences. For the first time, UNC School of Medicine researchers have discovered what the drug lysergic acid ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, was accidentally discovered in the late 1930s by a pharmaceutical researcher. Not getting the results he wanted initially, Albert Hofmann ...

Your DNA influences how you react to psychedelic drugs, along with other factors. Certain genes affect how you absorb serotonin (a mood booster) and metabolize drugs like ketamine. Other markers can ...

Acid or LSD levels peak in the blood about 1.7 hours after taking it. It takes about 4 hours for levels to reduce to half, so it may be detectable for around 8 hours. During this time, the body breaks ...

On October 6th, 1966, nearly a thousand participants and three bands – including the Grateful Dead – gathered in the Panhandle of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to observe the criminalization of LSD ...

A new study suggests that low doses of the psychedelic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD, can enhance how ...