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 ...

Bill Gates opened up about his past drug use in his memoir, "Source Code: My Beginnings." Gates said he tried LSD as a young man despite what Steve Jobs may have thought years ago. During his "trips," ...

That fuzz turned out to be a fungus that scientists had been seeking since the 1930s. And this included Albert Hofmann, the ...

Psychotropic drugs are all the rage now as a potential treatment of brain diseases. Examples are ketamine and psilocybin for depression and PTSD. More recently, a single dose of LSD was found to have ...

The drug LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide, is infamous for the long and intense trips it induces. But the psychedelic drug is also thought to hold potential as a powerful treatment for serious ...

The researchers found that it was safe to administer a low dose of LSD in an outpatient setting as it is psychologically well tolerated with no recorded severe adverse effects. The study assessed ADHD ...

The story of Revolver began in a night of hell and illumination. "We've had LSD," John Lennon told George Harrison. It was spring 1965. Lennon and his wife, Cynthia, and Harrison and his wife, Pattie ...

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday ...

It's always been a bit of a mystery why LSD is such a potent hallucinogen. Unlike most similar drugs, it takes only a very small dose—say around 100 micrograms—to have strong effects that last 12 ...