On April 14th, Fireside Project launched the first ever peer support line specifically aimed at helping people navigate psychedelic experiences. It offers free, confidential, support by phone, text message, and live chat to people in the midst of psychedelic experiences or integrating past psychedelic experiences. The support line is staffed by volunteers who have made a one-year commitment and who have completed an intensive 36-hour training program.
Read MoreLife Magazine, September 9, 1966 LSD ART: NEW EXPERIENCE THAT BOMBARDS THE SENSES
Read More1P-LSD first appeared as a research chemical sold in January 2015. It has questionable legal status in the United States, as it is not directly regulated but because 1P-LSD would likely be considered an analogue for LSD, its possession and sale may be prosecutable in the United States under the Federal Analogue Act.
Read MoreMclean’s Magazine cover feature on LSD. Sidney Katz, a leading psychedelic researcher writes about the medical and spiritual potential of LSD
Read MorePreparing for a first LSD trip. Some musings on preparing for your first acid trip. How to create a good set and setting for an LSD experience.
Read MoreThe classic article by David Nutt, analyzing the social harm of various drugs
Read MoreThe Original Captain Trips
by Todd Brendan Fahey
Published originally by High Times, November 1991
Before Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...before Timothy Leary...before Ken Kesey's band of Merry Pranksters and their Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests...before the dawn of the Grateful Dead, there was Alfred M. Hubbard: the Original Captain Trips.
Read MoreKetamine’s destruction of club culture circa 2010 by Tom Armstrong of the now defunct Sabotage Times.
Read MoreThat time the government ran a brothel and dosed citizens with drugs….
Read MoreCosmopolitan’s November 1963 article “LSD: Hollywood’s Status-Symbol Drug”. A critical look at the use of LSD in the early 60s.
Read MoreWhen a freak brain hemorrhage struck out of nowhere a couple of years ago, I became a little depressed, stuck in a rut, and strangely fearful of death. So when I heard about people (in my neighborhood, even) using hallucinogens to push beyond their preoccupations, to help them live without fear, I decided that was a trip I had to take.
Read MoreAn overview and in-depth summary of Oregon’s Prop 109, the Psychedelic Therapy Initiative. In November 2020, Oregon adopted the Oregon Psilocybin Services Act, leading the way for regulated decriminauzation of psilocybin.
Read MoreTime Magazine’s coverage of the use of LSD in Hollywood psychiatry in 1960
Read MoreExploring the benefits and challenges of mircro-dosing.
Read MoreLook Magazine, September 1, 1959. Cover story on Carry Grant’s LSD use. Previously unavailable online.
Read MoreWhat drugs are tested for by employers? Is LSD commonly tested for by employers? Read more here.
Read MoreDr. Bryan Roth at the University of North Carolina crystallized a related receptor, 5-HT2BR, attached to LSD. The scientists used x-ray crystallography to visualize the structure. Their study was supported by NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Results were published on January 26, 2017, in Cell.
Read MoreMarch 25, 1966 Life Magazine coverage of LSD. From the Story: “This is a very private kind of story, and we found ourselves feeling terribly protective about these people. We wanted to show they weren't just the antisocial fringe."
Read MoreDrugs that Shape Men's Minds by Aldous Huxley. October 1958.
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