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LSD

Nick Gillespie, James Fadiman, and Jordan Gruber are shown on the screen with the words "James Fadiman & Jordan Gruber" in white in the top left corner and The Reason Interview logo in the bottom left corner | Illustration: Lex Villena

Psychedelics

James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber: Psychedelics Legalization Will Continue No Matter Who Is President

Authors James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber discuss their new book Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance.

Nick Gillespie | 3.26.2025 11:00 AM

ministrippingonutopia | Grand Central Publishing

book

Review: Tripping on Utopia Complicates the History of Psychedelics

Mind-altering drugs have long been seen as tools for both liberation and control.

Jesse Walker | 3.15.2024 6:00 AM

Elon Musk raises a glass | Stefano Carofei / Avalon/Newscom

Drugs

Let Elon Musk Enjoy Drugs

Intoxicants might be a source of problems—or enhance our ability to cope.

J.D. Tuccille | 1.10.2024 7:00 AM

Shane Mauss | Photo: Zach Weissmueller

Psychedelics

Shane Mauss: Is the End of the Drug War Inevitable?

Comedian Shane Mauss on the democratization of mushrooms, LSD, cannabis, DMT, and ketamine

Nick Gillespie | 11.25.2023 6:00 AM

Psychedelic historian Erika Dyck in front of a mushroom background | Lex Villena

Psychedelics

Erika Dyck: Are We Living in a Psychedelic Renaissance?

Historian Erika Dyck contextualizes the deep roots of and battles over LSD, psilocybin, and other psychoactive substances.

Nick Gillespie | 9.20.2023 4:01 PM

A photo of Erika Dyck with an illustration in the background of magic mushrooms | Lex Villena

Psychedelics

The Secret History of Psychedelics

Historian Erika Dyck wants to document the deep roots of and battles over LSD, psilocybin, and other psychoactive substances.

Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller | 9.13.2023 11:29 AM

v6 | Lex Villena

Psychedelics

The Psychedelic Renaissance Is Here

Inside the gathering of the scientists, psychonauts, capitalists, and comedians committed to mainstreaming psychedelics without repeating the errors of the 1960s.

Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller | 8.16.2023 11:00 AM

Julie-Holland | Lex Villena, Reason

Psychology/Psychiatry

Julie Holland: 'How You Can Feel Good, With or Without Drugs'

The psychiatrist and Good Chemistry author has written the definitive account of "the science of connection from soul to psychedelics."

Nick Gillespie | 8.26.2022 4:45 PM

Psilocybin mushrooms held in the palm of someone's hand | Mykhailo Abramov / Dreamstime.com

Drug Legalization

Scofflaws Lead the Way To Legalizing Psychedelic Drugs

With 28 percent of Americans trying hallucinogens, the days are numbered for bans.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.3.2022 7:00 AM

Brady-Brammer-Utah-House-cropped | Utah House of Representatives

Drug Legalization

All But 2 Utah Legislators Just Voted to Investigate the Psychotherapeutic Potential of Psychedelics

The bill is the latest sign of strange new respect for drugs that were once routinely depicted as menaces to body and soul.

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2022 5:50 PM

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War on Drugs

Psychedelic Drugs Win Growing Respect

Not only won’t they blow your mind, but they may even save it (sometimes legally).

J.D. Tuccille | 2.11.2022 7:00 AM

Ethan_Nadelman | Gage Skidmore

Drug Policy

Ethan Nadelmann: How To End the Drug War (and What Comes Next)

The Drug Policy Alliance founder and Psychoactive podcast host on how to build a post-prohibitionist America.

Nick Gillespie | 10.27.2021 3:50 PM

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Television

Trip Out with Timothy Leary's Ex-Girlfriend in My Psychedelic Love Story

A documentary describes a drug-fueled countercultural romance.

Glenn Garvin | 11.27.2020 3:00 PM

Have_a_Good_Trip__Adventures_in_Psychedelics_00_13_50_20_R | Netflix, Sunset Rose Pictures

Psychedelics

Have a Good Trip Explores Psychedelic Celebrities

New documentary features Sting, Sarah Silverman, Anthony Bourdain, Carrie Fisher, and others discussing the good, bad, and ugly of LSD.

Nick Gillespie | 5.13.2020 3:00 PM

doblinincar | Sarah Rose Siskind

Psychedelics

Rick Doblin: 'People Should Have the Fundamental Human Right To Change Their Consciousness'

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is making MDMA and other drugs medically legitimate and socially acceptable.

Nick Gillespie | 4.8.2020 12:05 PM

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Drug Policy

What Will Drugs Be Like After Prohibition? Q&A with Hamilton Morris

The host of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia is already exploring what a post-prohibition world is going to look like.

Nick Gillespie | 5.10.2019 2:45 PM

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Drug Legalization

Hamilton Morris Is Changing the Way We Talk About Drugs

The host of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia is exploring what a post-prohibition world will look like.

Nick Gillespie, Mark McDaniel, and Alexis Garcia | 5.10.2019 1:00 PM

siskinddrugtest | Drug Test

Weed Week

What Will Post-Prohibition Drug Culture Look Like?

Sarah Rose Siskind's monthly show Drug Test is creating a world of educated psychonauts one trip at a time.

Nick Gillespie | 4.19.2019 12:15 PM

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Reason Podcast

How Psychedelics Changed the Life of One of America's Leading Novelists: Podcast

Tao Lin's Trip details how the author's experience with LSD, DMT, psilocybin, and more blew his mind while making him more human.

Nick Gillespie | 12.11.2018 5:45 PM

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Reason Podcast

Why Can't Psychedelics (and Other Drugs) Just Be for Fun?: Podcast

LSD, psilocybin, and other hallucinogenics are gaining new acceptance as serious medicine. But what if you want to do them just for fun, asks Jacob Sullum.

Nick Gillespie | 11.9.2018 3:20 PM

Large image on homepages | 'Wormwood,' Netflix

Television

Wormwood's Bad Trip Peddles CIA Conspiracies

The facts don't add up in re-enactment of famous LSD death of Frank Olson.

Glenn Garvin | 1.26.2018 3:00 PM

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Television

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Early LSD Guru

Friday A/V Club: Celebrate Halloween with Gerald Heard, Boris Karloff, and some killer bees.

Jesse Walker | 10.27.2017 12:23 PM

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LSD

American Adults See Occasional LSD Use As Riskier Than Regular Binge Drinking. It's Not.

Fifty years of scaremongering have turned LSD into a bogeyman.

Mike Riggs | 10.5.2017 1:20 PM

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Alcohol

Neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt on Alcohol, LSD, and Getting Sacked for His Findings

Zach Weissmueller | 8.1.2017 12:00 PM

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Reason Podcast

Countdown To (Legalized) Ecstasy! Rick Doblin, MAPS, & the Psychedelic Renaissance [Podcast]

Serious researchers are about to do what Timothy Leary never managed: Get government approval for LSD, MDMA, and more.

Nick Gillespie and Ian Keyser | 7.19.2017 11:00 AM

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LSD

Medical Researchers Are Steps From Legalizing Ecstasy. Here's How They Did It.

A half century after the psychedelic movement came to a screeching halt, MDMA scientists are making the most of a second chance.

Mike Riggs | 7.18.2017 8:30 AM

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Reasontv

LSD Microdosing: The New Silicon Valley Productivity Hack

George Burke says taking tiny hits of acid has changed his work, and his life, for the better.

Zach Weissmueller and Alex Manning | 6.26.2017 2:21 PM

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Reasontv

Long Strange Trip: The Grateful Dead's Radical Anti-Authoritarian Streak

Director Amir Bar-Lev discusses his new 4-hour documentary on Jerry Garcia, the band, and their relationship with fans.

Meredith Bragg | 5.27.2017 10:45 AM

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Drug Policy

Why LSD Trips Last Forever, What Happens When You Inject Psilocybin

And other fun notes from the world's largest gathering of psychedelic researchers.

Mike Riggs | 4.26.2017 5:25 PM

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LSD

The Geopolitics of LSD

What happens if you cross Baba Ram Dass with Allen Dulles?

Jesse Walker | 2.8.2017 4:45 PM

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LSD

Friday A/V Club: ABC, LSD, and the CIA

The 1979 TV special Mission: Mind Control

Jesse Walker | 9.23.2016 1:15 PM

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Clemency

Obama Will Issue Thousands of Commutations If He Keeps This Month's Pace

The president might even surpass Richard Nixon's commutation rate.

Jacob Sullum | 8.31.2016 6:30 AM

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Policy

Friday A/V Club: You Are Watching LSD-TV

There was a time when psychedelics could get friendly coverage on a commercial TV news show.

Jesse Walker | 11.6.2015 1:23 PM

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Policy

Prohibition Kills

Four examples of drugs the government made more dangerous by banning them

Jacob Sullum | 10.5.2015 12:01 AM

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Policy

Fentanyl-Laced Heroin and Other Deadly Consequences of Prohibition

How the government makes drugs more dangerous

Jacob Sullum | 10.2.2015 7:30 AM

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Culture

Baseball Was So Much Better When You Could Dose Team Mascots with LSD

The best souvenier program illustration ever, explained

Matt Welch | 2.19.2015 4:08 PM

Policy

West Virginia Man Who Faced Life in Prison for Taking a Psychedelic With His Wife Got a Year Instead

Jacob Sullum | 12.8.2014 3:22 PM

Policy

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead

Prohibition drives drug users toward dangerous LSD substitutes.

Jacob Sullum | 12.8.2014 8:30 AM

Policy

How the Government Promotes Dangerous LSD Substitutes

Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2014 2:17 PM

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Civil Liberties

Zane Kesey and the New Merry Pranksters' Acid(-Free) Tests

They're keeping counterculture kicking.

Zenon Evans | 9.17.2014 11:00 AM

Policy

First Study of LSD's Psychotherapeutic Benefits in Four Decades Breaks Research Taboo

Jacob Sullum | 3.4.2014 6:41 PM

Policy

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Deap: LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann, RIP

Nick Gillespie | 4.30.2008 8:50 AM

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