Psychedelic mushroom

TYRONE -- Pennsylvania Avenue between 10th and 11th streets in Tyrone opened late Friday afternoon after state narcotics agents and the Blair County Hazardous Materials Team dismantled and cleaned up a suspected psychedelic mushroom growing operation.  

LONDON (Reuters) - The brains of people tripping on magic mushrooms have given the best picture yet of how psychedelic drugs work and British scientists say the findings suggest such drugs could be used to treat depression. Two separate studies into the ...  

We may be just a few years away from going to our neighborhood pharmacies for our monthly supply of medicinal mushrooms. From the Independent: Magic mushrooms could one day be prescribed for depression after Professor David Nutt, the controversial sacked government drugs advisor, claimed research on healthy volunteers proved what a mistake it was to abandon therapeutic psychedelic drugs more than 50 years ago. The first clinical trial into...  

Prof Nutt said the findings were "a revelation". He said: "Psychedelics are thought of as 'mind-expanding' drugs so it has commonly been assumed that they work by increasing brain activity, but surprisingly, we found that psilocybin actually caused ...