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.
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.
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.
The psychonaut field manual [pdf] (thedaemon.space)
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.
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”.
Psychedelic Drugs May Give a Glimpse into Near-Death Experiences (nytimes.com)
A survey revealed similarities between these two altered states of consciousness.
Mushroom edibles are making people sick. Scientists still don't know why (text.npr.org)
Magic Mushrooms May Have Shaped Our Consciousness (popularmechanics.com)
A scientist took a psychedelic drug – and watched his own brain 'fall apart' (npr.org)
Microdosing candies recalled after psychoactive muscimol found (arstechnica.com)
The Promise of 5-MeO-DMT (undark.org)