In large doses, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) can repair damaged neurons in the brain, and reveal new ways of seeing the world. In small doses, microdosers chase the effects of the drug on ...

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A new UK-based study will explore whether microdosing psychedelic drugs such as LSD really brings the psychological benefits that some people claim – or if it's all just a placebo effect. Microdosing ...

After a several years of bubbling just beneath the surface, psychedelic drugs are having their latest moment of public acceptance. Meanwhile, groups as disparate as Silicon Valley executives and ...

It’s a Sunday afternoon in November in Amsterdam and I am having trouble preparing my drugs. On a chopping board in front of me is a gnarled chunk of psilocybin or “magic” truffle. It looks like a ...

A University of Toronto Mississauga researcher and his colleagues have "uncovered high potential research avenues" for assessing the benefits and drawbacks of microdosing with the psychedelic ...

A little bit of hallucinogen can go a long way in alleviating physical pain. New research has found that a microdose of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) significantly increases human pain tolerance ...

LSD microdosing could increase the duration of sleep the following night, according to the largest study of its kind. The unexpected finding may help to explain why the practice has been associated ...

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