The film "Journeys," which addresses the ethics behind the use of psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, to navigate trauma, will be released on April 10.

Two distantly related groups of mushrooms take radically different routes to producing psilocybin, a mind-bending molecule. By Rachel Nuwer No one knows why magic mushrooms evolved to produce ...

Researchers are now testing whether psilocybin can treat severe depression without producing the hallucinogenic trip that has long defined the psychedelic experience. A proof-of-concept clinical trial ...

Oregon took a leap into the psychedelic unknown when voters approved regulated psilocybin services nearly six years ago to treat addiction, depression and other illnesses. Since then, thousands of ...

Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic compound that is the active ingredient in certain types of mushrooms (also called magic mushrooms), long used by Indigenous communities in parts of ...