The future is bright; its colours, sights and sounds more vibrant and steeped in a better understanding of our consciousness and it’s brought to you by the wonders of psychedelic science. It is a field of study with a storied…
Redditors shared their drug-related stories and they are hilarious
Drugs alter the chemical state of a person’s body and mind and essentially, doing drugs is bad for you. And we’re not talking about prescription drugs, but the addictive ones. There are the legal addictive drugs and illegal addictive drugs.…
Couple gets high on LSD and tries to build IKEA furniture
BY: RHIANN MOORE IKEA has (probably) caused countless breakups, family fights and ended friendships. With seemingly no solution to getting cheap furniture without entering into a metaphorical boxing ring between building partners, this couple decided to up the ante by dropping…
This house in San Francisco is home to over 33,000 sheets of LSD
Nestled deep within San Francisco’s Mission district lays a white, two-story house with heavy black curtains shrouding the windows. Unbeknownst to casual passersby, inside this house there are over 33,000 sheets and individual tabs of LSD blotter paper on display. This…
The CIA once ran a string of LSD brothels to unlock the secret to mind control
BY: M. TOMOSKI Illustration by: Ryan Garcia / The Plaid Zebra In 1975, law enforcement agents, scientists and prostitutes gathered in Washington to talk drugs. They were brought to the Capitol to testify about a CIA project known as MK-ULTRA,…
Decades ago, the Alcoholics Anonymous founder believed LSD could be the 13th step to sobriety
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Over a decade before Woodstock and seven years before the Merry Pranksters, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous took his first liquid hit of acid. It was Aug. 29, 1956 and among the beige walls and flower print…
Silicon Valley professionals are micro-dosing LSD at work to gain “superhuman” creativity
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Silicon Valley professionals have turned to an unlikely drug to boost their creativity, enhance performance and climb the ladder of success: LSD. Their method is simple, and far from getting stoned at work—though its usage is kept…
This psychonaut had a revelation after watching The Simpsons on LSD for two days straight
BY: TREVOR HEWITT “Now is the time of The Simpsons.” Let’s face it – hallucinogenic psychedelics and cartoons go together like peanut butter and jelly. For years LSD has been used to induce spiritual journeys and help treat mental illness.…
A group of researchers in the UK are getting high for science
BY: M. TOMOSKI Amanda Feilding, director of the Beckley Foundation, is the Countess of Wemyss and March, and she wants to change the way we think about drugs. Her own experiences with LSD are what fueled the inspiration to study…
I was halfway through airport security in Detroit when the LSD began to take hold
BY: M. TOMOSKI I was halfway to Detroit Metro when I realized that my plan had been poorly timed. The flight to New York was scheduled for 7:30AM and no amount of caffeine or water was going to stop the…
How Ken Kesey used LSD and a travelling bus of hippies to start the 60s psychedelic revolution
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Ken Kesey took his first tab of acid in a government control room. “How did the substance make you feel?” Asked the nurse. “I felt like I discovered a hole in the centre of the Earth and…
Aldous Huxley’s wife wrote this letter about injecting him with LSD right before he died
BY: TYLER FYFE On the same day President Kennedy was assassinated, the world lost a second giant in time. Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World and other stunning works of literature died after a 3-year battle with cancer.…
NBOMes: Legal Synthetic Hallucinogens Are 10 Times Stronger Than LSD and 10 Times More Deadly.
BY EMMA MCINTOSH A new class of synthetic drugs similar to LSD has arrived on the market, and they’re called NBOMes. Originally synthesized in 2003, NBOMes were created to aid in the mapping of serotonin receptors in the brain. However,…
My first time tripping on acid
Down the rabbit hole we go. A few cigarettes were being passed around as I watched the grains of soil slowly become magnified. “Have a drag man, it’ll speed up your bloodstream. The acid will hit you harder” Tyler said.…