Hacker News with Generative AI: Psychedelic Drugs

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 25 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 36 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 71 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 92 days ago | 7 comments
Magic Mushrooms May Have Shaped Our Consciousness (popularmechanics.com)
Psychedelic Drugs, Neuroscience, Human Evolution, Consciousness
34 points by rayrrr 120 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 126 days ago | 0 comments
Microdosing candies recalled after psychoactive muscimol found (arstechnica.com)
Health, Food Safety, Psychedelic Drugs
4 points by freeqaz 143 days ago | 0 comments
The Promise of 5-MeO-DMT (undark.org)
Psychedelic Drugs, Consciousness, Research
44 points by EA-3167 167 days ago | 53 comments