Better moods, higher concentration levels, more creativity - and all without the usual risks associated with hard drugs: Proponents of microdosing LSD - taking tiny fractions of the amount needed for ...

The CIA gave LSD to unsuspecting people and secretly observed their reactions to it to research uses for the drug in espionage and interrogation. Some victims developed severe psychological trauma, ...

A dose of LSD – that psychedelic drug hippie grandmothers took in the 60s – could help ease anxiety, a new study has found. LSD, also called acid, is a hallucinatory drug that makes us feel euphoric, ...

When American comedian Neal Brennan spoke to Joe Rogan about his experience with ketamine therapy for depression, he did not sound like a man who had just returned from a rave. “It felt like being in ...

LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938. He discovered its powerful psychoactive effects in 1943 after accidentally ingesting a small amount and experiencing vivid ...

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 ...

One person’s acid trip could be another person’s anxiety therapy. That’s the tantalizing upshot from a new study that showed LSD may have the potential to alleviate anxiety. The findings are just the ...