Benefits of Magic Mushroom Therapy Long Lasting

Originally appearing here. Nature News published a piece on Griffiths’ follow-up to his human psilocybin research. MAPS President Rick Doblin posted a comment in response to the piece which is included …

A Really Long Strange Trip

Originally appearing here. A web exclusive piece published online by Newsweek discusses Griffiths’ psilocybin research and his piece containing guidelines for human research with psychedelic compounds, …

Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug

Originally appearing here. Roland Griffiths and his study of psilocybin have made the news again, as recounted in this Associated Press news report, with the appearance of a 14-month follow-up to his original …

From MAPS: Letter to Editor of the Economist

Dear Editor, The obituary for Albert Hofmann, the inventor of LSD who died April 29 at age 102, reported that LSD research was stopped in the early 1970s and never resumed. Actually, a protocol evaluating …

Albert Hofmann, chemist, died on April 29th, aged 102

Published on 8 May, 2008 From The Economist HIS first experience was “rather agreeable”. As he worked in the Sandoz research laboratory in Basel in Switzerland on April 16th 1943, isolating …

Albert Dies, LSD Psychotherapy Research Lives

By Rick Doblin Published in Google News Inventions don’t get to pick their inventors, but if they did, LSD couldn’t have picked a better inventor than Albert Hofmann. Albert was already mystically …

Albert Hofmann Obituary

By BENEDICT CAREY From the New York Times On the afternoon of Jan. 11, Albert Hofmann, the chemist who discovered LSD, had about a dozen friends and family up to his glass-walled home in the mountains …

On Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD

From the National Post (Canada) Published on May 01, 2008, 1:47 PM EST By Colby Cosh The Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who died on Tuesday at the age of 102, assembled a remarkable track record as an investigator …

Dr. Peter Gasser’s MAPS-sponsored study

Dr. Peter Gasser’s MAPS-sponsored study evaluating LSD-assisted psychotherapy for subjects with anxiety secondary to advanced-stage illness received final approval from the BAG (Swiss DEA) on December …

In September, MAPS submitted an application to F

In September, MAPS submitted an application to FDA for a new study evaluating psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for subjects with end-of-life anxiety secondary to advanced-stage melanoma. On October 18, …