The left has traditionally favored personal freedoms and liberties such as cognitive liberty, bodily and sexual autonomy, and diversity of cultural tradition.

Yet today many outspoken leftists have drifted drastically into a herd mentality of restricted bodily and mental autonomy under the guise of ethical concerns, safety, and ‘protecting the most vulnerable in society’ when it comes to the emergent regulation of psychedelics.

Where did psychedelic centrism come from? Was it always around, and is only now being elevated in the discourse? Or is it a byproduct of a changed world - the same drugs, taken by different people with a different upbringing?

I went to SXSW 2025 and here are 4 things I learned about self-actualization and 3 stories about drugs

What do you get when you combine a reality television star, a technocratic broligarchy, deregulation, and the oval office?

A growing number of outfitters around the world are offering bespoke travel experiences centered around mushroom foraging and ID workshops, citizen science, wild mushroom culinary adventures, and tripping - sometimes all rolled into one bundle.

While the Reishi mushroom has been highly prized for its medicinal value for over 2,000 years in China, what do we know about traditional indigenous use of this powerful adaptogenic mushroom elsewhere in the world?

The world has woken up to the visionary potential of psilocybin mushrooms and their traditional use in various cultures, but what about the other ‘magic mushrooms’?