Two years ago, while tripping on mushrooms, Margo Price decided to quit drinking. This wasn’t her first attempt, but something about her psychedelic journey led her to an epiphany. “I know it sounds a little woo-woo, but I was touched by something,” says Price, 39. “I thought about fucking everything …
Read More »What Is 'Avatar: The Way of Water' Like on Shrooms?
I’m so high. I overheard this as I walked through the concessions area at the AMC cinema in Universal CityWalk Hollywood, surprised that I wasn’t the person who said it. Which could only mean that I was also high, and the handful of psilocybin mushrooms I’d scarfed down in the …
Read More »Telemedicine Company That Pushed Ketamine on TikTok Announces Its 'Closure'
Peak, one of the telemedicine companies advertising psychedelic therapy via ketamine doses on TikTok, has announced they are “winding down” their controversial membership service. Less than a month after Rolling Stone reported on how “personalized psychedelic therapy programs” have been promoting ads aimed at zoomers on social media sites like …
Read More »They're Pushing Cut-Rate Ketamine Therapy on TikTok
“My life when I was on SSRIs and doing talk therapy: Struggling to sleep, not eating, and still feeling no relief,” the TikTok’s caption reads. A man with close-cropped facial hair and a warm, approachable face lies in bed. “Sunroof” by Nicky Youre and Dazy plays in the background. As …
Read More »The Never-Ending Psychedelic Trip of Michael Pollan
There was a time when psychedelics such as LSD, mushrooms, and mescaline were primarily relegated to those who were wild and weird enough to brave the legal and social throes imposed by the War on Drugs. But those days are ending — if they haven’t already slipped into the past. …
Read More »These Mormons Have Found a New Faith — in Magic Mushrooms
O n a Sunday afternoon in March, a group of 30 strangers huddle under a park pavilion in Salt Lake City, Utah, sipping hot cocoa and shaking hands shyly as snow clots the cottonwoods. A clean-cut gang of mostly white professionals, they are united by their interest in the Divine …
Read More »Dr. Bronner's Offers Employees Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
Dr. Bronner’s — the “Magic Soaps” company long-adored by hippies and hipsters — is helping its employees take advantage of new advances in psychedelic therapy. The company, which has donated widely to drug decriminalization and research efforts, has become the first to partner with its healthcare provider, the non-profit Enthea, …
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