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Aleksandra Konoplia/Getty Images Scientists Just Watched a Brain Go on a Psychedelic Trip in Real Time
If you’ve ever tried to explain a psychedelic trip to someone who has never had one, you’ve probably ended up sounding like an insane person.
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Sean Gallup/Staff/Getty Images Teen Cannabis Use May Double Your Risk of Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder
A new study suggests that teenage marijuana use could lead to some devastating consequences down the line.
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Picture by Christian Filardo Exclusive: An Ex-UN Officer Reveals His Secret Double Life of Cocaine Addiction
After using five grams a day while stationed in South America, the UN insider believes legalization will help bring an end to violent organized crime in the region.
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The former UN worker in question (All pictures courtesy of source) ‘I Was Snorting 5 Grams a Day’: The Wild Life of a Cocaine-Addicted UN Worker
Executions, police beatings, and meeting teenage dealers in the favelas—a UN insider reveals his secret double life of addiction.
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Photo: Eugene Mymrin / Getty Images Researchers Tried to Get AI Chatbots High. The Results Were Predictably Stupid.
AI can convincingly talk about being in a psychedelically induced altered state, but it cannot be there for you when you’re in one.
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Photo: VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images Does Cannabis Use Keep Your Brain Young?
There might be a link between cannabis use and youthful brains, especially for older adults.
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Saulgranda/Getty Images Scientists Gave Fruit Flies Magic Mushrooms. Here’s What Happened.
The researchers primarily focused on the idea that psilocybin likely evolved to deter invertebrates that eat mushrooms.
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VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination
Scientists call them “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures
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A policeman at a trial related to Sky ECC in October 2024 (Photo by ERIC LALMAND / BELGA MAG / Belga via AFP) Sky ECC: The Encrypted Phone Bust That Was Meant to End Drug Crime Has Fallen Apart in Court
So called “chat-only” cases have been used to convict thousands—but the results of a case in Spain may see them overturned and other prosecutions halte, VICE has learned.
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Iana Kunitsa/Getty Images THC Now Has a Standard Measure Like Alcohol. How Much Is Too Much?
This newfound clarity on THC could end up doing more for public health than decades of vague advice ever has.
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