Psychedelics

The Real Psychedelic Bottleneck Is Coverage

T Wagner, Gaetano Lardieri, Nichelle Santos, Jessica Umlauf, Vaughn Wagner At PhilaDelic 2025, the most consequential question was not whether…

4 months ago

Heavy Hangs the Head that Wears the Helmet: NFL Players Open Up About Psychedelic Use

What happens when the stereotype of the NFL player—tough, strong, impenetrable—cracks? When bodies trained for collision, force, and victory slow…

5 months ago

Music for Mushrooms Isn’t What You Think It Is

East Forest wants your attention for two hours. In 2025, that’s borderline illegal. I called East Forest from Buenos Aires.…

5 months ago

The War on Drugs Failed Because It Never Understood Why People Use Drugs

From pleasure and connection to harm reduction and policy failure, a look at what decades of drug enforcement got wrong…

5 months ago

Trip Your Way to Better Health? Researchers See Medical Potential in Ketamine, Mushrooms and Ibogaine

The PhilaDelic Fall Forum laid out a roadmap for wider use of ibogaine and mushrooms to treat addiction and depression…

5 months ago

The U.S. Military Is Funding MDMA-Assisted Therapy Research for PTSD (For Real)

A Department of Defense (DoD)-funded clinical trial will study MDMA-assisted therapy paired with Massed Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in active-duty…

5 months ago

Why Does ‘Nothingness’ Hit After the Party? Inside the Existential Hangover of the Post-Rager Crash

As gravity dictates, whatever goes up must come down. During parties, we expose our bodies to an avalanche of stimuli…

6 months ago

Colorado Is Building America’s First Psychedelic Care System

Colorado’s Natural Medicine Program is moving from legislation to lived practice, built not by corporations but by the people preparing…

6 months ago

[Watch] Rick Doblin: ‘We Taxed Ecstasy Dealers To Fund Our DEA Lawsuit’

“We were given 20,000 doses of MDMA… we will use that to fight the DEA.” That line lands like a…

7 months ago

The Tech Mogul Who Never Wants to Die Is Now Macrodosing Mushrooms

If there’s one ancient thing in this world, it’s the fear of death. Hundreds of practices (more or less grounded…

7 months ago