When stubborn drives for inclusion and connection in the present betray a racially divided past, psychonauts may be able to attend to histories of exclusion, separation and disconnection in order to deepen our understanding and engagement in the present.

I feel safe openly advocating for the beneficial use of illicit substances because I have never been stopped by police without legitimate cause.

The War on Drugs is inherently anti-black. Most psychedelic users that I’ve encountered are hesitant to take a stance on the racial aspects of the drug war.

Let’s Talk About That.

“LSD, 100 MCG, intramuscular”

It’s been more than six years since I participated in the Johns Hopkins Spirituality study, but it continues as the most life-changing event of my life.

We talked with Michael Verdon, the artist behind the burning temple at Catharsis on the Mall

Johns Hopkins and Yale Schools of Medicine reviewed dozens of studies and recent trials on psychedelic compounds.

"On Tuesday, you will be the only person in the U.S. who will be taking psilocybin legally.”

"Too many people just see ayahuasca as a sales product and that’s a problem, where it becomes commodified."

Through social media, student exchange, and American pop culture, perceptions of marijuana & psychedelics are slowly changing in Hong Kong.

We passed out the tabs of acid, we toasted, and we dropped. And then suddenly, up we went. I stood up, gingerly putting my weight on my right leg. And...nothing. No pain. No tenderness. I was invincible.

“Let It Happen” by Tame Impala came on as if there was a switch inside my brain where the drug started working.

“Ralph, have you ever done LSD?” Of course, my dad’s speaking to a policeman, and it’s the 70’s, and my dad hadn’t done LSD.

Timothy Tyler, was serving a double-life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling LSD.

What if honest drug education, harm reduction, long term integration, and acknowledging risks, took the place of propaganda?

“Ya I love it, good taste. Fresh!” I had no idea what I’m doing.

I was a couple strong beers in when I reached over for my friend’s vaporizer and took several drags. It was pretty psychedelic.

In this interview I talk with Dorion Sagan about whether his father Carl Sagan used LSD, his mother Lynn Margulis’s paradigm-changing theory of symbiogenesis, her thoughts on psychedelics, and his new book Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old-And What It Means for Staying Young.

The LSD rushed through my gums and into my jaw at the same time the bitter drip of MDA slowly ran down the back of my throat. I didn’t exactly understand what was happening nor did I care because I was excited.