Mushroom products purchased from smoke shops across San Diego await testing at Infinite Chemical Analysis Labs on the city's north side. (Hayne Palmour IV/For The Times) Beneath the psychedelic colors ...

A Maryland father says an experimental treatment using the hallucinogenic chemical found in magic mushrooms helped him manage his debilitating depression as he battled cancer. Evan Craig said he was ...

The chemical in “magic mushrooms” holds promise for terminally ill cancer patients or drug addicts, researchers at Johns Hopkins found. Volunteers who received psilocybin, the hallucinogenic substance ...

This may be worth a trip to the Garden State. New Jersey is mulling a law that would make it only the third state to decriminalize so-called “magic mushrooms” — and it may even allow residents grow ...

Brain scans show the drug disrupts the default mode network, a collection of regions that synchronize when the brain isn’t engaged in a specific task Most effects wear off with the drug, but small ...

Beneath the psychedelic colors and cartoon mushrooms, the labels are often vague: Some claim to be “vegan space capsules” while others warn they are only “novelty collectibles.” A few obliquely say ...