The science of psychedelics

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Michael Pollan on the science of how psychedelics can ‘shake your snow globe’

May 18, 2018
Quirks and Quarks radio program
http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/quirks-an...t/15546181


Also this:



His new book:
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.

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An interview with researchers into psychedelics, neuroscientists JIMO BORJIGIN and ANIL SETH

Science of Consciousness conference, Tucson 2018




...and CONSCIOUSNESS CENTRAL 2018 - PROGRAM 3

In this third program in our 2018 series, our guests are neuroscientist SELEN ATASOY talking about the latest research into psychedelics (...)

Altered Minds - BBC start the week

Psychedelic drugs are once again being trialled to treat a range of psychological conditions. The writer Mike Pollan tells Kirsty Wark about the science of LSD and magic mushrooms: from the 1940s to the 1960s they promised to shed light not only on the deep mysteries of consciousness, but also to offer relief from addiction and mental illness. Banned since the 1970s, there is now a resurgence of research into these mind-altering substances.

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Being a fan of Robert Anton Wilson, I sought something out by him but perhaps more philosophy than science.

http://www.rawillumination.net/search?q=psychedelics

I'm certainly interested in looking at these videos and examining such science.  Thanks for the thread.

Here's a Daily Grail article embedding an interview of Michael Pollan by Joe Rogan:
https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/06/chang...chedelics/

Courtesy of the Daily Grail, here's an ecstatic book review following by an interview with the author. The review is on a cannabis-themed website called Merry Jane, and the book is "Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult" by Chris Bennett:
https://merryjane.com/culture/liber-420-...the-occult

I thought I'd put this here rather than starting a thread on cannabis. It does touch on psychedelics as well.

Here's a Daily Grail article embedding an interview of Michael Pollan by Joe Rogan:
https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/06/chang...chedelics/

Im about three quarters of the way thru michael pollans book. How to Change your mind.
He's a capable writer, and does a good job of disseminating current research. ( He spends a bit to much time worshipping at the clay feet of the god of materialism for my taste. But i guess thats necessary to be a credible science journalist.)

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A London company is creating psilocybin doses for treating depression

[Laird]

Resurrecting this thread as a general-purpose "psychedelics and science" thread (versus our other thread on the risks of therapeutic uses, as well as a myriad more specific threads):

The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic
5 June, 2026
News Team
Psychedelics.co.uk

Hundreds of people a year are hospitalised seeing little people after a meal of a prized Yunnan bolete. Its genome has now been read in full, and whatever causes the visions is nothing science recognises.

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Scientists Created a Psychedelic ‘Factory’ Inside a Single Plant
July 15, 2026
Austin Burgess
The Debrief

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have engineered Nicotiana benthamiana, a fast-growing relative of tobacco, to produce five different psychedelic compounds.

The achievement, detailed in a study published in Science Advances, brings together biosynthetic pathways that nature distributes across three different kingdoms of life.

The five compounds (DMT, psilocybin, psilocin, bufotenin, and 5-MeO-DMT) are typically sourced from an Amazonian shrub, mushrooms, and the defensive skin glands of a desert toad. Extracting even one of these molecules from its natural source is a slow process. Producing all five in a single, easily cultivated plant had not been achieved before.