The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its first formal guidance on how to design and run clinical trials for psychedelic drugs, a move that directly clears a path for psilocybin, the active ...

In a review of previous studies, McMaster University researchers observe a stronger signal for psilocybin as a treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder than cannabinoids. Psilocybin is a ...

Psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, remains illegal in California. Despite that, many companies operate as if psychedelics are legal, some even using them during wellness ...

Oregon took a leap into the psychedelic unknown when voters approved regulated psilocybin services nearly six years ago to treat addiction, depression and other illnesses. Since then, thousands of ...

7:09 p.m. Aug. 22, 2025: An earlier version of this story reported that Dr. Sunil Aggarwal filed a lawsuit after a 2020 petition seeking to reschedule psilocybin was denied. He filed that petition in ...

Psilocybin-assisted therapy is legal in three states, but access has so far been limited and expensive. Dr. Bonny Koeber prepared a therapy room with sage before a patient arrived from New York for ...

Psilocybin is a psychedelic drug with promising clinical applications for treating mood disorders and substance abuse disorders. Recent work in functional MRI (fMRI) studies show that psychedelics can ...

The Trump administration is set to weigh in on whether the hallucinogenic compound psilocybin should be moved into a less restrictive class of drugs under federal regulations. Regulation of psilocybin ...