Research into mind-altering drugs is back. By Zoë CorbynYou don’t have to spend much time at the six-day second international Psychedelic Science conference in downtown Oakland to learn that not all its 1,900 attendees are academic scientists, and that few are strangers to the power...
By Dan OlsonST. PAUL, Minn. — To the untrained eye, a certain greenhouse of plants at the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus may seem like nothing special. But Dennis McKenna, an ethno-pharmacologist, sees much more than that.Some can cure disease, like the Madagascar periwinkle.“It...
Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, is being explored as a therapeutic tool to improve the lives of people with a life-threatening illness. By Erica RexThis article was originally published with the title Calming a Turbulent Mind.Link to PREVIEW of article | Scientific American...
Once taboo, psychedelics are making an enlightening medical comebackby Jennifer Bleyer / GSAS ’12On a spring day in 2010, “Sandra,†then a 63-year-old ice-skating instructor with short graying hair and an impish smile, received her diagnosis: ovarian cancer, stage 1C. The rock-hard tumor growing inside...
