Archaeologists have unearthed some powerful hallucinogenic potion from a 1,000-year-old leather pouch that once belonged to a Native American shaman in South America. The team tested the substances ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Oakland City Council voted Tuesday to become ...

Nearly every culture, religion and society has been influenced by some kind of plant. In some cases, those plants have yielded mind-altering substances that—when ingested by humans—have been ...

Around the world, approximately 147 million people use cannabis. For many of them, the goal is to feel the effects of the plant’s psychoactive compound, ∆-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, better known as THC.

According to a study published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a spiral symbol painted on the walls of a cave in Southern California depicts the flower of a ...

An ancient society in the Peruvian Andes likely used psychoactive drugs during exclusive rituals that may have helped establish social and political hierarchies seen later throughout the region, ...

This Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council meeting will discuss topics including wheelchair charging opportunities for the homeless, a visit to a new sister city and the decriminalization of entheogenic, ...

Imagine it’s 1,000 years ago, you’re somewhere in the Andes mountains, and you’ve taken the psychotropic substance ayahuasca. According to a chemical analysis led by a University of California, ...

Initiative includes leading ethnobotanists and will leverage Jaguar's plant-based medicines expertise and proprietary library of 2,300 medicinal plants Jaguar and its subsidiary Napo Pharmaceuticals ...