Psilocybe maluti was found growing in pastureland on cow manure in the Free State and Kwa-Zulu Natal provinces of South Africa, as well as the highlands of Lesotho. Two new species of psychoactive ...

Wood-lover paralysis is a poorly understood syndrome related to consuming a native species of magic mushroom, with sufferers ...

Psilocybe fungi, known colloquially as “magic mushrooms,” have held deep significance in Indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica for centuries. They captured the wider world’s attention as a psychedelic ...

Alex Bradshaw has been on a mission to map the genomic diversity of psilocybe for years. He’s been determined to find out when these peculiar mushrooms started producing psilocybin — and by extension, ...

Researchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edible products sold in Portland, Ore., and found no trace of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound that gives magic mushrooms their name. Instead seven of the ...

Colorado could limit the state’s emerging magic mushroom industry to one strain and severely restrict the use of psilocybin extractions, according to the final draft of proposed natural medicine ...