Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 was synthesized in a Swiss laboratory in 1938. Early researchers called it “psychotomimetic” because it caused psychosis akin to schizophrenia. In the 1950s, the British ...

They were scientists and writers in the ’40s and ’50s, mystics and musicians in the ’60s and ’70s, neo-psychedelic counter-culturalists in the ’80s and ’90s. And in the 2010s, they’re back — as ...

From time to time on Broadway, a show will open where characters seem to be having a really great time: Drinking excellent whisky in a bar, perhaps, or making fantastic love or chowing down on chicken ...

This day—April 19—is the 78th anniversary of the first-ever acid trip. It is affectionately referred to by psychonauts around the globe as Bicycle Day. The psychedelic compound LSD is known primarily ...

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In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the ...

A fiction writer has penned a story about aircraft carrier sailors tripping on LSD. It's inspired by true events. (Navy Times illustration by Philip Kightlinger) News of more than a dozen sailors from ...