What exactly happens to the brain on psychedelic drugs? A small new study, published in the journal Current Biology, peeked inside the brains of 15 people during an acid trip and found brain-scan ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, was accidentally discovered in the late 1930s by a pharmaceutical researcher. Not getting the results he wanted initially, Albert Hofmann ...

One evening in September of 1957, viewers across America could turn on their television sets and tune in to a CBS broadcast during which a young woman dropped acid. She sat next to a man in a suit: ...

Bicycle Day is observed around the world on April 19th, though it’s not exactly a celebration of the bicycle. Instead, the international holiday honors the fortuitous trip made on a bicycle on the day ...

Before research on it was banned in the 1960s, lysergic acid diethylamide, more commonly known as LSD or acid, showed promise in treating psychiatric patients, especially those with severe anxiety.

When LSD was made illegal in the late 1960s, most laboratory research on the drug was likewise suspended. As a result, the best knowledge we’ve got of how the drug works comes from studies way back in ...

Can you imagine riding a bicycle on acid? On April 19, 1943, Albert Hofmann, the Swiss father of psychedelic medicine, dropped lysergic acid diethylamide and went on a bike ride, becoming the first ...

A tiny tab of acid on the tongue – a daylong trip full of hallucinations and psychedelic experiences. For the first time, UNC School of Medicine researchers have discovered what the drug lysergic acid ...

The acid tests of 1960s San Francisco have morphed into something quite different in today’s Silicon Valley. Mind-altering trips have given way to subtle productivity boosts purportedly caused by tiny ...

LSD is an extremely potent, long-lasting psychedelic drug: A dose of just 100 micrograms is enough to send someone on a hallucinatory trip that can last a whole day. Now, scientists report that the ...

If you decide to drop acid, you’ll want to clear your schedule: A trip on lysergic acid diethylamide can last anywhere between six and 20 hours. Why acid trips last so long has been a mystery — until ...