The hallucinogen psilocybin -- known by the street name magic mushrooms -- may help ease the anxiety that often accompanies late-stage cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Cancer patients given a moderate dose of psilocybin -- a hallucinogen with effects similar to LSD -- were measurably less depressed six months after a single dose compared with a placebo. Patients seemed somewhat less anxious, they reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

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Few directors in tinsel town are as qualified to direct a “remake” or “reimagining” or “readaptation” or whatever you want to call it of Lewis’ Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland than out-there auteur Tim Burton, who has long proved his mettle as a filmmaker with an insatiable penchant for psychotropic production values.

From Edward Scissorhands to Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton has established himself as a sort of safe facilitator of recreational drug use: if you don’t want to ingest hallucinogens but still want to experience the effects, he’s your man.

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Originally published in 2004 ‘Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanácatl’ is a relatively comprehensive sourcebook on the psilocybin mushroom. The book is edited by Ralph Metzner, who’s history with the psychedelic movement dates back to the Harvard Psilocybin Project. It contains contributions from a wide range of individuals and contains elements of science, theory, history and experiential accounts of the psilocybin experience.

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Trailer for the pilot episode of the documentary series, "The Secret Life of..." featuring host Dan Glass, as he uncovers the lesser known stories behind various psychoactives in cities around the world.

The pilot episode looks at Mazatec ritual use of psilocybin mushrooms in Huautla de Jimenez, Mexico.

There’s something bonding about losing all mental and physical faculties with your friends, but, cleaning off the warm piss, I decided then and there that mushrooms and four walls were a bad combination, and that the only way to guarantee a safe and happy trip was to take them during daylight in the countryside.

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Medienprojekt PSI-TV präsentiert eine Dokumentation des Referats: “Medizinisch Interessante Indolalkaloide In Pilzen - Bildung, Stabilität Und Zersetzung” mit Dr. Jochen Gartz auf dem Entheovision Kongress 2007. Anschliessend geht Jochen Gartz auf Fragen aus dem Publikum ein. Länge: 47 Minuten.

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A man from Massachusetts is in the Henry County Jail on drug charges, accused of transporting psychedelic mushrooms in a motor home.

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