Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, was accidentally discovered in the late 1930s by a pharmaceutical researcher. Not getting the results he wanted initially, Albert Hofmann ...

It took just one LSD trip, in 1965, to hook Tim Scully — not on the drug, but on the notion of a world where everyone experienced the trippy transcendence that acid gave him. “For me, taking acid was ...

During my high school experience of the mid 90s, especially in small towns like the one I grew up in, the drug culture was booming. Hash, shrooms, and acid were king. A few designer drugs like ecstasy ...

For many, the psychedelic Sixties began at an event called the Trips Festival that took place in San Francisco the third weekend of January 1966. At the three-day blowout, between 3,000 and 5,000 ...

On October 6th, 1966, nearly a thousand participants and three bands – including the Grateful Dead – gathered in the Panhandle of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to observe the criminalization of LSD ...

It’s no secret that being on acid — also known as LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide — can make the mundane seem full of meaning, but now we may know why. And not only that, scientists may have ...

Researchers are investigating whether the drug could be used in mainstream medicine—with and without its hallucinatory ...

LSD usage is on the rise among U.S. adults – especially young adults with depression. And the trend mirrors growing research into the psychedelic drug's ability to treat mental health disorders like ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), or acid, lasts up to 12 hours in the body and is metabolized within 48 hours. When you take it orally, it’s absorbed by your gastrointestinal system and channeled ...

The work was led by David E. Olson, director of the Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics at the University of California, Davis. Scientists in Olson’s lab and at Delix Therapeutics, a ...