In April 1959, it was revealed that Cary Grant, one of the world's most bankable movie stars, was an enthusiastic user of LSD. Getty Images While LSD is often associated with 1960s hippies and Timothy ...

I n the 1930s, the married anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead had seen themselves as scientists seeking to expand the accepted limits of “normal” human behavior, communication, and ...

Brian Wilson was known for having dabbled with psychedelics, and unbelievably, his very first time on LSD triggered him to ...

Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story. “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of ...

On Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the zodiac had reached their most southerly point — light was dimming on the Summer of Love. In an unassuming pad ...

Margaret Mead was among the most famous scientists of the 20 th century. Despite this, however, her role in the early history of psychedelic research has gone strangely unnoticed. With her ...

Diplo took a trip on New Year’s Eve, and we’re not just talking about the fact that he got in a chopper. The DJ admitted to tequila-drunk hosts Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper that he was under the ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Half a century after Timothy Leary urged the world to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” there’s a surge of interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The psychedelic drug was ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 was synthesized in a Swiss laboratory in 1938. Early researchers called it “psychotomimetic” because it caused psychosis akin to schizophrenia. In the 1950s, the British ...

During his appearance on CNN's New Year's Eve Live With Andy Cohen & Anderson Cooper, Diplo admitted that he was tripping on LSD on live TV. "What’s the most conventional place that you’ve done LSD?" ...

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