Rafael was apprehensive at first. Sitting on a yoga mat facing the setting sun, he whispered to his wife, “I’m scared.” R5-MeO-DMT was a religious experience for Rafael. Recounting his second journey on the outlawed chemical on 5Hive, a social media forum of 5-MeO-DMT users, Rafael recalled sitting on a yoga mat facing the setting sun […]
At his worst, D.F. thought heroin wasn’t his problem. It was his solution. It soothed his physical pain, killed the uncomfortable emotions, and quieted the noise in his head. He began self-medicating with daily doses of heroin, methadone, and Xanax, sometimes topping it off with a stiff drink. “When you’re in agony,” D.F. said, “numbness […]
The wording was key. Use the wrong term or phrase to describe a peculiar experience associated with an experimental drug, and it’s sure to be the old nail in the molecule’s coffin. Find the right words, and you open up a world of pharmacological possibilities. That’s where Drs. Edward Domino and Guenter Corssen were in […]
Exactly 65 years ago, R. Gordon Wasson, a vice president of J.P. Morgan & Co., leaned over the desk of the highest ranking official in a remote Mexican Indian village high atop the Mixeteco mountains and whispered, “Will you help me learn the secrets of the divine mushroom?” Hours later, Wasson and his traveling companion […]
Paul Stamets is standing on stage at the Exponential Medicine conference dressed in comfortable jeans and an amadou hat. It’s like he was plucked right out of the enchanted forest where he’s wandered for the past 50 years, eyes to the foliage in search of golden, saucer-shaped shoots rising from mossy turf. He talks about shrooms with […]
