ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

Do You Know the Mushroom Man?

By Chris Taylor

As America experiments with decriminalizing psilocybin, one scientist spreads the gospel of 'shrooms at festivals — and in 'Star Trek.'

Read on mashable.com

FindCenter Post-Image

The Movement to Decriminalize Psilocybin, Explained

The latest frontier in state and local drug reform has been the loosening of legal restrictions on psilocybin—the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms.”

Article
Dustin Marlan
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

FDA Calls Psychedelic Psilocybin a 'Breakthrough Therapy' for Severe Depression

The FDA is helping to speed up the process of researching and approving psilocybin, a hallucinogenic substance in magic mushrooms, to treat major depressive disorder (MDD).

Article
Yasemin Saplakoglu
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Psychedelic Therapy and Racial Trauma: Offering Clients a Deeper Experience of Healing

Like most people of color in the United States, psychotherapist and researcher Monnica Williams has experienced myriad forms of racism. Early in her career, understanding its effects on her mind and body motivated her to help clients address their own racial trauma in therapy.

Article
Chris Lyford
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Psilocybin Therapy May Work as Well as Common Antidepressant

The first randomized controlled trial to compare the illicit psychedelic psilocybin with a conventional selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant found that the former improved symptoms of depression just as well on an established metric—and had fewer side effects.

Article
Zoe Cormier
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

How Should We Do Drugs Now?

While we can now begin to glimpse an end to the drug war, it is much harder to envision what the drug peace will look like. How will we fold these powerful substances into our society and our lives so as to minimize their risks and use them most constructively?

Article
Michael Pollan
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Why Canada Could Be Next to Allow Psychedelic Therapy (And How It’s Already Changing Lives)

Now, as a handful of patients and more recently doctors and therapists have been granted exemptions to use psilocybin, the nation’s federal health agency is considering making changes to existing policies that could open the door to much more than magic mushrooms.

Article
Amanda Siebert
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Are Psychedelics the Answer to Depression and Addiction?

A new generation of research into psilocybin could change how we treat numerous mental health conditions.

Article
Johann Hari
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Psilocybin Sessions: Psychedelics Could Help People with Addiction and Anxiety

Study participants at some of the country's leading medical research centers are going through intense therapy and six-hour psychedelic journeys deep into their minds to do things like quit smoking and worry less.

Article
Anderson Cooper
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Working with Bio-Intelligence of Plants for Healing and Guidance During Insane Times

How can conscious engagement with plants, with which we’ve co-evolved since the dawn of our species, support healing in the physical, emotional and spiritual realms and help mend our separation from nature? Three brilliant herbalists/botanists, long on the cutting-edge of re-empowering the...

Article
Bioneers
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

What Is Plant Spirit Medicine?

Eliot Cowan, an American-born healer, fully initiated Tsauirrikame (shaman) in the Huichol tradition, teacher, author, and founder of the alternative healing technique known as Plant Spirit Medicine, remains as a leading authority on the healing wisdom of plants.

Article
Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley
2017
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Drug Policy