Research demonstrates that rats given psilocybin exhibit increased optimism and motivation in reward-based tasks. This study ...

The matchup: Two doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” against a six-week course of the popular antidepressant escitalopram, often sold as Lexapro or Cipralex.

They come from Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, which are legal for doctors to prescribe in some places but not others. Researchers at the University of Texas-Arlington say they’ve developed a scale to ...

Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Psilocybin is the hallucinogenic substance found in “magic mushrooms” and the subject of many studies as a potential ...

Authorities say Benjamin Harmon sold psilocybin to a 15-year-old boy before he fell from a crane on a construction site and ...

A Frederick man who was first arrested two months ago for reportedly dealing psilocybin mushrooms to a teen who later died in ...

York police have seized approximately 100 pounds of magic mushrooms, saying the discovery is “one of the largest psilocybin lab operations uncovered.” The street value of the seized drugs is ...

A search warrant on a home following an altercation has led to the arrest of a 36-year-old Kooskia woman. According to the ...