People who regularly use ayahuasca, a traditional Amazonian psychedelic drink, may have a fundamentally different way of ...

Ayahuasca (pronounced eye-ah-wah-ska) is a plant-based psychedelic drug. It’s usually brewed into a tea or a concentrated liquid to drink. It can also be smoked. Other names include huasca, yagé, ...

Could hallucinogenic ayahuasca tea be used to treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases? Researchers at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) are on the way to answering that question. Their new ...

Inside the vast apparatus of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), there's a bureaucrat who is tasked with investigating the tenets of psychedelic churches. That improbable job figures in ...

Although his parents urged him to study medicine, Jimmy Weiskopf dropped out of college and in the 1970s moved to Colombia, where he eventually began to focus on a different kind of elixir. The New ...