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The Trip Is the Easy Part

The dosing session gets the headlines. The weeks after decide what any of it meant. Inside integration — the unglamorous discipline researchers keep saying does the heavy lifting.

The Trip Is the Easy Part

The dosing session gets the headlines. The weeks after decide what any of it meant. Inside integration — the unglamorous discipline researchers keep saying does the heavy lifting.

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A Thousand Patients, No Shortcuts

Compass Pathways laid out Phase 3 psilocybin data in Miami: 1,000+ patients, two trials, durable results in treatment-resistant depression. The most rebellious part is the rigor.

A Thousand Patients, No Shortcuts

Compass Pathways laid out Phase 3 psilocybin data in Miami: 1,000+ patients, two trials, durable results in treatment-resistant depression. The most rebellious part is the rigor.

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The Drug the VA Wouldn't Touch for Sixty Years

For the first time since the 1960s, the VA is running its own psychedelic trial — pharmaceutical-grade MDMA, eighty veterans, and a quiet bet that the thing it spent decades...

The Drug the VA Wouldn't Touch for Sixty Years

For the first time since the 1960s, the VA is running its own psychedelic trial — pharmaceutical-grade MDMA, eighty veterans, and a quiet bet that the thing it spent decades...

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La Jolla Counted the Quiet Ones

A UC San Diego survey put real numbers on microdosing for the first time. Turns out the quiet practice isn't so small, and most people doing it aren't chasing a...

La Jolla Counted the Quiet Ones

A UC San Diego survey put real numbers on microdosing for the first time. Turns out the quiet practice isn't so small, and most people doing it aren't chasing a...

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María Sabina and the Cost of Being Found

A Mazatec healer let two strangers into her ceremony in 1955. One of them worked at J.P. Morgan. What happened next built the modern psychedelic world — and quietly took...

María Sabina and the Cost of Being Found

A Mazatec healer let two strangers into her ceremony in 1955. One of them worked at J.P. Morgan. What happened next built the modern psychedelic world — and quietly took...

Stanford's New Ibogaine Data, and What Veterans...

Stanford's new EEG study on ibogaine and PTSD in veterans points at a real mechanism — and it lands as the White House, the VA, and a growing list of...

Stanford's New Ibogaine Data, and What Veterans...

Stanford's new EEG study on ibogaine and PTSD in veterans points at a real mechanism — and it lands as the White House, the VA, and a growing list of...