There has been an increase in research on the topic of psychedelic substances and their effects as treatment options neuropsychiatric conditions. Psilocybin is a drug that recently garnered increased interest effective modality for treatment-resistant depression, depression associated with terminal conditions, certain substance use disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, sparse data ...

The Psilocybe genus is well known for the synthesis of valuable psychoactive compounds such as Psilocybin, Psilocin, Baeocystin and Aeruginascin. The ubiquity Psilocybin in has been attributed to a horizontal gene transfer mechanism ~20Kb cassette. A recently published highly contiguous reference genome derived from long read single molecule sequencing underscored interesting variation t...

Abstract This article reports on the experiences of four healthy individuals who attended a legal psilocybin truffle retreat in Netherlands. The study employed qualitative phenomenological approach, using semi-structured interviews to gain an understanding participants' and their after-effects. experiential themes that emerged from these case studies closely match have been identified previous ...

Veterans are at increased risk of experiencing symptoms trauma. Although many benefit from available treatments, some find treatment inaccessible or ineffective and explore alternative substances. One such substance is psilocybin. This Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study aimed to provide an initial insight into the experiences veterans who have used considered using psilocybin their ...

The applications of LC-API-MS in routine forensic toxicological casework were presented. This technique has been used for routine determination of several groups of drugs: opiate agonists (like morphine, codeine, dihydrocodeine and their glucuronides, methadone, buprenorphine) cocaine and its metabolites (benzoylecgonine and ecgonine methyl ester), amphetamine and other psychoactive phenethylam...

The following questions regarding the detection of psychoactive drugs in mushrooms are addressed: At what stage of the mushroom development can the psychoactive drugs psilocyn and psilocybin be identified, and what effect does light have on the growth of these mushrooms. To answer these questions, Psilocybe cyanescens Wakefield mushrooms were grown from their spores in a controlled setting. At ...