On AlterNet: psychedelics

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "psychedelics"

Why Prescription Ecstasy or LSD Could Happen Much Sooner Than You Think

Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. June 24, 2011.

If a growing phalanx of scientists get their way, prescriptions for psychedelic drugs could be yours within 10 years.

How Christopher Hitchens Could Help His Fellow Cancer Patients by Promoting Psychedelic End-of-Life Therapy

Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. May 17, 2011.

Hitchens underwent waterboarding to experience the torture of terror suspects -- now dying of cancer, he could help the cause of psychedelic research with a dose of psilocybin.

How Psychedelics Can Be a Path to Transformation

Phil Wolfson, Tikkun. March 18, 2011.

An exploration of psychedlics' potential to support personal, spiritual, and cultural transformation.

Podcast: Sacred Psychedelics and Their Transformative Power

AlteratiOctober 1, 2010.

Interviews with psychedelic pioneers Adam Elenbass, Charles Shaw and Isabella Stoloff

How Stanislav Grof Helped Launch the Dawn of a New Psychedelic Research Era

Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. April 10, 2010.

The world of medicine may finally be ready to catch back up with psychedelic pioneers, whose work was rejected a half-century ago.

Did Anti-Drug Propaganda Help Bring About a Psychedelic Renaissance?

Ryan Grim, Wiley Press. July 20, 2009.

As the anti-drug program spread into 3/4 of all school districts by the '90s, America's youth enjoyed a psychedelic renaissance.

Have You Ever Taken Ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon?

Alexander Zaitchik, Killing the Buddha. May 22, 2009.

My account of a night high on the "Ayahuasca madre" with the Ashaninka tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest.

What Happens When You Put 300 Experts on Psychedelics in the Same Room?

Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. September 25, 2008.

The "Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics" conference in New York presented an older and wiser psychedelic movement.