While visions of tiny people sounds straight out of a fairy tale, it’s a normal reaction from eating a type of fungi that’s a little different than your typical “magic ...

Paul Stamets has been a forty year overnight success. Fresh on the back of $60 million of new investment for his start-up MycoMedica, the undisputed magic mushroom king is firing on all cylinders this ...

Federal regulators are taking aim at a popular category of psychoactive edibles that contain an iconic red-capped mushroom in the wake of a rash of illnesses and even a few suspected deaths. This week ...

WASHINGTON – A new study published Thursday finds that several mushroom candies, which are widely promoted as containing legal psychedelic ingredients, actually contain illegal hallucinogens. The ...

In recent years, there's been growing interest in psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in "magic mushrooms" or "shrooms" as a potentially beneficial therapy for mental health conditions. At the ...

A hand in a blue glove plucks a white mushroom from a dense stand of mushrooms. Mature magic mushrooms are carefully harvested to minimize damage. Credit: Filament Health Some scientists theorize that ...

Consumers are warned not to eat PolkaDot brand Mushroom Magic Blend Chocolate Bars that contain dangerous additives, the California Department of Public Health reported. CDPH and the San Diego County ...

Scientists have amassed genome data for dozens of “magic mushroom” isolates and cultivars, with the goal to learn more about how their domestication and cultivation has changed them. The findings, ...

Recently, researchers from McMaster University reviewed past studies to see if psilocybin (the active chemical in magic ...

David Hodges founded San Francisco’s Church of Ambrosia on the belief that psychedelic mushrooms are a sacrament that can reveal life’s true purpose. Inside America’s largest—and trippiest—megachurch.