When Matt Thierfelder began his career as a Vancouver firefighter in 1994, the weight of unspoken rules hung over him: Don’t show weakness and don’t be vulnerable.

Currently, only one ballot measure — proposing new limits on financial contributions to candidates for public office — has ...

Busting stigma is no small task, especially when it involves convincing the public that a psychedelic drug might one day be ...

Proponents of a plan in Alaska to legalize certain psychedelics—including psilocybin, mescaline and DMT—have submitted an initial round of voter signatures as part of the campaign’s effort to put the ...

It's not every day somebody from Mt. Sterling, Ky. the small town I've lived in more than 50 years, is featured in The New Yorker magazine. The New Yorker is arguably the swankiest periodical in the ...

An interview with Rev. Hunt Priest, who said “Why do we imagine that God is not still working through our visions, dreams, ...

The New Hampshire Senate last week voted to scrap compromise legislation that would have lowered the state’s criminal penalty ...

Resolutions have decriminalized psilocybin in cities across Western Washington. Studies show psychedelics can help people suffering from trauma, depression, and anxiety. And more people are ...

The Iowa House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to legalize psilocybin, a hallucinogenic chemical produced by psychedelic mushrooms, for psychiatric treatment in the state. In an 84-6 vote ...

Li had run a chain of pain clinics in Washington until 2016, when state regulators suspended his medical license, alleging that drugs his clinics prescribed had contributed to the deaths of 18 ...

Drug reform advocates hailed Oregon as a progressive leader when it became the first in the nation to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the compound found in psychedelic mushrooms.

FLICKR, BHUMIKA B. Psilocybin, the psychedelic component of certain mushroom species that continues to be investigated for its use in treating anxiety and depression, elicits brain activity ...