In a snow-covered village on the northern outskirts of Moscow, Russia’s most famous mycologist, Mikhail Vishnevsky, poured me a cup of light psychoactive mushroom tea. But it wasn’t psilocybin, the ...

My former neighbor Mike Corse, owner of Canton-based Deep Root Mushroom Farm, suggested I write about a Christmas fungus that could account for some of the magical features of that holiday tradition.

Q : Can you identify this mushroom? [The reader sent a photo.] I ran across it while deer hunting in a pine grove in south Arkansas. A : I am not a mushroom expert, but I think it is commonly called ...

Fans of products that cause psychoactive effects may have noticed an increase in Amanita muscaria mushroom gummies showing up in smoke shops, wellness stores, and online stores that sell hemp-based ...

In the yard yesterday, I came upon a fly amanita. This is a mushroom — Latin name Amanita muscaria — that you don’t want to harvest and eat. Whenever I find one, I’m reminded of a walk I took decades ...

The world of psychedelics is an enchanted forest filled with flowers, herbs, animals, and mushrooms that can elicit a mystical response. In the case of mushrooms, this covers more than psilocybin ...

Step aside, psilocybin: A new shroom is in town. According to a new study by researchers at the University of California (UC) San Diego’s Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity ...

The federal agency is warning against products from Berlin-based company Deutschen Cannabis Manufaktur (DCM). Muscimol is known to cause dizziness, nausea tiredness, visual and auditory ...