It’s no secret that LSD causes vivid hallucinations, altered states of consciousness, one-ness with the universe, and a host of other psychedelic effects. But ever since the trippy chemical was ...

Bicycle Day, celebrated annually on April 19, commemorates the world’s first recorded LSD trip, in 1943. That’s when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested lysergic acid diethylamide before bicycling ...

This excerpt is taken from “The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America” by Matthew Oram, available now. Published by Johns Hopkins University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann via Getty Images In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful ...

A single dose of LSD can affect the learning of motor sequences even hours after the psychedelic trip. This is shown by a study from the University of Freiburg.

Do you know what Bicycle Day is? Hint: It’s got little to do with actual bicycles. 78 years ago, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann went on the world’s first LSD trip. He had synthesised the substance five ...

There's a gateway in the middle of your brain that prevents you from fully experiencing every sense that hits you throughout the day. Called the thalamus, it sits on top of the brain stem and decides ...

When LSD was made illegal in the late 1960s, most laboratory research on the drug was likewise suspended. As a result, the best knowledge we’ve got of how the drug works comes from studies way back in ...

The first time that I took LSD, I accepted three and a half tabs on my tongue from a man dressed up in a monkey suit. Despite the hot summer weather, I raided the winter wardrobe of the house I was ...

An unplanned LSD trip occurred during the repair of a vintage synthesizer at Cal State University East Bay. San Francisco’s KPIX 5 broadcast operations manager Eliot Curtis had a nine-hour psychedelic ...