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Psychedelic Stories | Snake: The Spirit of Ayahuasca

My rational mind told me that I should be absolutely terrified, but I felt no fear at all. As his consciousness merged with mine, I knew instinctively that he meant me no harm.

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Microdosing: The Key To Changing The Conversation About Psychedelics?

Unless you’ve spent the last year scoping out your post-apocalyptic home in the wilderness of New Zealand, you’ve likely heard a thing or two about microdosing.

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Drug prohibition is morally unjust and pragmatically useless, Pt. 2

Proponents of drug prohibition provide reasons why alcoholic substances should continue to remain legal while substances like LSD should not. No persuasive arguments of that sort are anywhere to be found.

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Dennis McKenna on his ethnopharmacology conference 50 years in the making

It’s been 50 years since the last one. The original idea was to hold followups every 10 years. But the war on drugs came along, and they were never held. It’s time to take another look at the current state of the art.

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Why We Need to Talk About “Bad Trips”

Although psychedelics are going to shape the future of mental health therapy, these powerful mind-altering substances shouldn’t be taken lightly.

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The Unexpected Trip

When I graduated from the Air Force Academy, it was George W. Bush who handed me my diploma.

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Psychedelics Can’t be Tested Using Conventional Clinical Trials

Should these drugs become part of medicine cabinets from San Francisco to America’s heartland, it will be high time to develop drug tests that control for the cultural diversity of this country’s doctors and patients.

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Caraballo & Norzi’s new film ‘Icaros: A Vision’ reinvents the aesthetic of psychedelics on screen.

Icaros: A Vision opens Friday, May 19th 2017 at Metrograph in NYC, followed by a national rollout in several cities in the U.S. and overseas.

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A Brief History of the Drug War

Why are some drugs legal and other drugs illegal? It’s not based on science or the relative risks – but has everything to do with who is associated with them.

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How Social and Climate Justice Activism is Psychedelic

As I became activated to defend something bigger than my own immediate welfare, a shift took place—a shift toward seeing reality as a singular entity as opposed to a bunch of disjointed parts.

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The families in México who’ve experienced the real consequences of drug prohibition.

The families of the disappeared people have had to organize among themselves, do their own investigations, and push state agents such as the police, judges, and the general attorney to do their job.

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Don’t Get Trapped in Psychedelic Identity Politics!

By limiting the psychedelic community to a certain homogeneity, it’s ultimately excluding to its detriment.