10+ Best Articles on Psychedelics
The most useful articles on psychedelics from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Psychedelics Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on psychedelics by Refind users in 2023.
Videos
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You can’t suppress psychedelics forever
“Jesus definitely took psychedelics, most likely DMT.”Subscribe to Freethink on YouTube ► https://freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe Up Next ► The drug users bible...
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on psychedelics—all under 10 minutes.
Psychedelics by David Nutt review
An expert makes the case for psychedelic therapy, but we should beware the ‘Pollan effect’
The Banality of Psychedelics
The central truths revealed to me by psilocybin were all the things my mother tried to teach me.
Jim Harris Was Paralyzed. Then He Ate Magic Mushrooms.
After becoming paralyzed from the chest down, the mountain athlete found an unlikely ally in recovery: psychedelics
This company is using beer yeast to make psilocybin
Brewing the magic in Psilocybe cubensis is difficult at scale. One Danish company thinks beer yeast may be the answer.
Psychedelic startups are betting on synthetic versions of "magic" mushrooms as the future
You can't patent naturally-occurring molecules like psilocybin. That's led to a rush to find a trippy synthetic "blend" as a profitable alternative
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on psychedelics.
Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period
Behavioural electrophysiological and transcriptomic studies in mice show that psychedelic drugs reopen the social reward learning critical period and suggest that this involves reorganization of the…
Psychedelics promote plasticity by directly binding to BDNF receptor TrkB
Moliner et al. show that psychedelics directly bind to the BDNF receptor TrkB with high affinity and promote BDNF-mediated plasticity and antidepressant-like effects, whereas their hallucinogenic-like…
A very trippy trip inside the great shroom boom
They’re the party drug of the post-pandemic era. So why are magic mushrooms suddenly everywhere? GQ journeys into the psychedelic world of psilocybin to connect the (blurry) dots
The Trip Treatment
Research into psychedelics may hold a key to coping with anxiety, addiction, and existential dread. Michael Pollan on psilocybin.
Characterization and prediction of acute and sustained response to psychedelic psilocybin in a mindfulness group retreat
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