During his appearance on CNN's New Year's Eve Live With Andy Cohen & Anderson Cooper, Diplo admitted that he was tripping on LSD on live TV. "What’s the most conventional place that you’ve done LSD?" ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Half a century after Timothy Leary urged the world to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” there’s a surge of interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The psychedelic drug was ...

In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the ...

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Margaret Mead was among the most famous scientists of the 20 th century. Despite this, however, her role in the early history of psychedelic research has gone strangely unnoticed. With her ...

Diplo has admitted he was tripping on LSD during his appearance on CNN’s special New Year’s Eve Live broadcast. The popular music producer and DJ, 46, who was in Los Angeles to perform three New ...

Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story. “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of ...

In a recording session for the song “Getting Better,” Lennon took what he thought was an amphetamine to keep him energized. Soon, though, he realized he’d actually taken LSD. He told Martin he felt ...

Diplo says he ran a marathon while on LSD. Yes, you read that right. The 44-year-old DJ finished the Los Angeles Marathon last weekend in 3 hours and 35 minutes, he said recently on social media. In a ...

A look back at the dark night in Munich when Fleetwood Mac lost guitarists Peter Green and Danny Kirwan to acid at an LSD ...

The famous Dupont slogan “Better Living Through Chemistry” was never intended to apply to drug use, but as Benjamin Breen explains in Tripping on Utopia, his charming and highly readable history of ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 was synthesized in a Swiss laboratory in 1938. Early researchers called it “psychotomimetic” because it caused psychosis akin to schizophrenia. In the 1950s, the British ...