In 1988, Gartz authored a paper describing how adding chemicals to psilocybin mushrooms could influence them to generate new tryptamines, a class of drugs that includes psilocybin, 5-MeO-DMT and ...

Psychedelics devotees are racing biotech entrepreneurs to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the world’s most powerful drugs, into a pharmaceutical.

A DMT therapy trip was the breakthrough I needed to help me cope with my trauma, and a friend helped guide me through the psychedelic experience. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

As the growing popularity of mind-manifesting drugs — including psilocybin, 5-MeO-DMT, ayahuasca, and MDMA — sweeps the mainstream worldwide in legal, gray, and underground markets, harm ...

What we have seen with DMT is that activity in highly evolved areas and systems of the brain that encode especially high-level models becomes highly dysregulated under the drug, and this relates ...

In a 2020 study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2561 people recounted encountering otherworldly presences on DMT, most commonly describing them as beings, guides, spirits, aliens, and helpers.

New psychedelic-like drugs: All treatment, no trip? California scientists race to concoct compounds that could rewire the brain more safely. ... DMT was isolated from the root bark of a tree in 1946.

It’s widely theorized that the psychedelic drug N,N-dimethyltryptamine, more commonly known as DMT, could cause the near-death experience, since the brain might be flooded with it as we approach the ...

Inside them, the team found 23 artifacts believed to be drug paraphernalia — mainly, tubes constructed from the bones of birds that researchers say functioned as apparatuses for inhalation.

More than 600 pounds of the street drug known as DMT was seized in Baltimore by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials while in transit to a Harford County address earlier this month.