Category: Drugs

Dec 19

Magic mushrooms – would be decriminalized in California under new bill

The possession and personal use of certain psychedelic drugs such as “magic mushrooms” and ayahuasca would be decriminalized in California under a bill introduced Monday backed by mental health professionals and veterans groups. Supporters of Senate Bill 58 say that the legislation is a step toward ending California’s “war on drugs” and that decriminalizing psychedelics […]

Mar 04

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary and the co-founder of the largest weed company just helped take a psychedelics startup public

After weed blossomed from its shrouded past to become a heavily regulated multibillion dollar industry, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary and the co-founder of the world’s largest cannabis company are betting psychedelics could be next. The duo both teamed up to back Mind Med, a startup that debuted Tuesday on Toronto’s NEO stock exchange that seeks to […]

Feb 25

A woman who tripped for 34 hours on LSD after taking 550 times the normal dose said it cured her Lyme disease

YahooPhoto by Horacio Villalobos – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images A woman overdosed, but didn’t die, after consuming 550 times an average dose of the psychedelic drug LSD. She had mistaken it as cocaine and ended up tripping for 34 hours. Following her overdose, the woman microdosed LSD and found it eliminated her chronic pain, a […]