PHOENIX — An Arizona Army veteran who spent years in military service, emergency medicine and law enforcement is now part of a pioneering effort led by one of the country’s most prominent psychedelic ...

The Scottsdale Research Institute (SRI) grows psilocybin mushrooms in Arizona with permission from the Drug Enforcement Administration. Late last month, the organization announced that it will use ...

Next month, the Scottsdale Research Institute will finally begin a clinical trial for psychedelic mushrooms, having gotten a key green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The trial, ...

7:09 p.m. Aug. 22, 2025: An earlier version of this story reported that Dr. Sunil Aggarwal filed a lawsuit after a 2020 petition seeking to reschedule psilocybin was denied. He filed that petition in ...

Nearly one in four Americans now believe that the use of psilocybin or “magic” mushrooms should be legal as 10 million report microdosing psychedelics in the past year ...

Researchers found that magic mushrooms and fiber caps independently evolved different biochemical pathways to create psilocybin. This convergence shows nature’s ingenuity, but the reason why remains ...

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A hand in a blue glove plucks a white mushroom from a dense stand of mushrooms. Mature magic mushrooms are carefully harvested to minimize damage. Credit: Filament Health Some scientists theorize that ...

Regulation of psilocybin — the “magic” substance in psychedelic mushrooms — has been a hot-button issue for Californians in recent years, but repeated attempts by state lawmakers to allow medical use ...