Hacker News with Generative AI: Psychedelic Drugs

Colorado's Experiment with Psychedelic Mushrooms Begins (undark.org)
Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s first “healing centers,” where the mushrooms can be ingested under supervision, in late spring or early summer.

Psychedelic Drugs, Colorado, Health, Regulation

16 points by bookofjoe 29 days ago | 2 comments

Dose-dependent effects of LSD in double-blind placebo-controlled study (2020) (nature.com)
Growing interest has been seen in using lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in psychiatric research and therapy.

Psychedelic Drugs, Science, Research, Medicine, Mental Health

39 points by 1832 73 days ago | 33 comments

A Leftist Activist Group Helped Torpedo a Psychedelic Therapy (nytimes.com)
After more than three decades of planning and a $250 million investment, Lykos Therapeutics’ application for the first psychedelic drug to reach federal regulators was expected to be a shoo-in.

Politics, Psychedelic Drugs, Healthcare, Business

13 points by domofutu 73 days ago | 6 comments

The psychonaut field manual [pdf] (thedaemon.space)

Psychology, Psychedelic Drugs, Guides, Manuals, Self-Help

70 points by andsoitis 115 days ago | 61 comments

Oakland's Psychedelic Mushroom Church (oaklandside.org)
Despite a police raid and global pandemic, Zide Door has accumulated members and slowly begun to resume in-person sermons.

Oakland, Religion, Psychedelic Drugs, Churches

25 points by agnosticmantis 181 days ago | 4 comments

Metabolic engineering of yeast for the production of psilocybin (sciencedirect.com)
Psilocybin is a tryptamine-derived psychoactive alkaloid found mainly in the fungal genus Psilocybe, among others, and is the active ingredient in so-called “magic mushrooms”.

Metabolic Engineering, Biotechnology, Psychedelic Drugs, Fungi, Chemistry

10 points by confused_boner 192 days ago | 3 comments

Psychedelic Drugs May Give a Glimpse into Near-Death Experiences (nytimes.com)
A survey revealed similarities between these two altered states of consciousness.

Psychedelic Drugs, Near-Death Experiences, Consciousness, Science, Surveys

8 points by bookofjoe 227 days ago | 1 comments

Mushroom edibles are making people sick. Scientists still don't know why (text.npr.org)

Health, Food Safety, Science, Psychedelic Drugs

9 points by mooreds 248 days ago | 7 comments

Magic Mushrooms May Have Shaped Our Consciousness (popularmechanics.com)

Psychedelic Drugs, Neuroscience, Human Evolution, Consciousness

34 points by rayrrr 275 days ago | 4 comments

A scientist took a psychedelic drug – and watched his own brain 'fall apart' (npr.org)

Science, Neuroscience, Psychedelic Drugs, Consciousness

7 points by ready2operate 281 days ago | 0 comments

Microdosing candies recalled after psychoactive muscimol found (arstechnica.com)