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The CIA gave LSD to unsuspecting people and secretly observed their reactions to it to research uses for the drug in espionage and interrogation. Some victims developed severe psychological trauma, ...

A dose of LSD – that psychedelic drug hippie grandmothers took in the 60s – could help ease anxiety, a new study has found. LSD, also called acid, is a hallucinatory drug that makes us feel euphoric, ...

When American comedian Neal Brennan spoke to Joe Rogan about his experience with ketamine therapy for depression, he did not sound like a man who had just returned from a rave. “It felt like being in ...

LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938. He discovered its powerful psychoactive effects in 1943 after accidentally ingesting a small amount and experiencing vivid ...

Psychotropic drugs are all the rage now as a potential treatment of brain diseases. Examples are ketamine and psilocybin for depression and PTSD. More recently, a single dose of LSD was found to have ...

LSD was accidentally discovered by Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz pharmaceutical company in Switzerland in 1938. It was apparently useless, but from 1947 it was marketed as “a cure for everything from ...