Psychedelic mushrooms are sometimes called 'magic' for their hallucinogenic effects which some proponents believe make them think more clearly and see things they would never ordinarily perceive. But ...

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 ...

Scientists found that the magic behind so-called “magic mushrooms”—psilocybin, a psychedelic compound—has evolved at least twice in mushrooms, and in very different ways. Researchers in Germany and ...

Feb. 23 (UPI) --The hallucinogenic psilocybin, derived from fungus, has been used in religious rites and ceremonies for hundreds of years in places like Peru and Brazil. But it recently found a ...

HUAUTLA, MEXICO — Alejandrina Pedro Castañeda opened a brown paper package and pulled out a handful of magic mushrooms, which many residents of this Indigenous Oaxacan town tenderly refer to as “child ...