Bicycle Day, celebrated annually on April 19, commemorates the world’s first recorded LSD trip, in 1943. That’s when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested lysergic acid diethylamide before bicycling ...

The thought just struck me, and I'm really curious as to what the answer might be. How would a blind person perceive the effects of the drug? Would they be able to have 'closed eye visuals'? The ...

This story is part of When the Drugs Hit, a Motherboard journey into the science, politics, and culture of today’s psychedelic renaissance. Follow along here. New research has identified a key neural ...

The psychedelic drug LSD is known for the wild hallucinations it conjures, and its effects have been portrayed by Hollywood in movies like Easy Rider and The Big Lebowski. But actual studies of LSD ...