magic mushrooms

A new course at Florida International explores the history of psychedelics and a new frontier for how these substances might have a positive effect on mental illness.

As efforts grow to decriminalize psilocybin, advocates in Washington state are pushing to make magic mushrooms available to dying patients even sooner using Right to Try laws.

Psilocybin, the hallucinogenic substance found in "magic" mushrooms, appears to relieve the symptoms of major depression.