This is giving business trips a whole new meaning. People are turning to psilocybin to help them climb the career ladder — and making a vacation of it by attending cushy retreats, sometimes dropping ...

This story appears in the November/December issue of ESSENCE, available on newsstands now. Festival-loving hippies, bro slackers, and, more recently, trendy “woo-woo” White women come to mind when we ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Poison centers across the country are seeing a dramatic increase in calls regarding magic mushrooms, including a tripling in reports of use among teens 13 to 19 years old.

“We are in the middle of a rapidly evolving cultural, media, and legal landscape when it comes to psychedelics,” says Nora D. Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Most of the discussion surrounding psychedelics and master plants centers on their therapeutic uses. This is for good reason, as multiple studies have shown encouraging results in treating PTSD and ...