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08/14/2025

Thanks to organizing from local advocacy organizations, including the Psychedelic Society of Minnesota, Minnesota has quietly become a hotbed of reform, launching a psychedelic task force and deprioritizing arrests related to entheogenic plants and fungi.

Join Big Psych for the 5th annual Psychedelic Symposium on August 15 and 16 at The Hook and Ladder in Minneapolis, MN to learn more about Minnesota's psychedelic community.

Thanks to organizing from local advocacy organizations, Minnesota has quietly become a hotbed of reform launching a psychedelic task force and deprioritized arrests related to entheogenic plants and fungi.

08/09/2025

Once limited to clinical trials and underground circles, psychedelics are now fueling a booming global consumer market—complete with branded gummies, chocolate bars, and v**e pens. Here’s how CPG psychedelic products went mainstream despite remaining illegal in most places, and the brands that are leading the way.

Read the full article by Dennis Walker below.

An expanding range of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) psychedelic products are available in the U.S. and Europe with DMT v**es, M**A gummies, psilocybin mushroom chocolate bars, and L*D the most popular forms.

08/07/2025

Bringing psychedelic-assisted therapy to people in conflict zones has long been a goal of MAPS founder Rick Doblin. In April, Doblin, along with Marcela Ot’alora G. MA, LPC, and Bruce Poulter RN, MPH, traveled to Ukraine to train 55 therapists in the therapy model MAPS developed.

“This is more important now than ever before as America is wavering in support for freedom all over the world and domestically,” said Doblin. “For me, it’s a chance to show how we respond to the world. Ukrainians are fighting for freedom, and the more we can help, the better.”

Read more about 's efforts as reported by Ali McGhee below.

Fifty-five therapists join a fleet of international practitioners to train in M**A-assisted therapy and advance MAPS’ goals for conflict zones.

08/04/2025

Former staff members of the 2024 Massachusetts Yes On 4 psychedelic ballot initiative have filed new complaints with the state’s campaign finance office.

Graham Moore and Jamie Morey say they were instructed by a campaign consultant not to disclose any connection to the campaign on invoices and contracts they sent to two nonprofits who advocate for access to psychedelics.

You can follow the complaints, including statements made by the involved parties, as well as texts and emails related to the allegations, by reading the story below.

In part 2 of our series on campaign finance, new complaints filed by former staffers of the Massachusetts Yes on 4 psychedelics initiative to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance appear to contradict assertions from a senior campaign advisor that payments were done in accordanc...

08/03/2025

You can find all of our coverage from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) PS2025 conference below! Enjoy, comment, and subscribe to our newsletter.

Two former campaign staffers of the failed Yes on 4 ballot initiative in Massachusetts have filed complaints with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance alleging violations of campaign finance law.

08/03/2025

In case you missed it, Lucid News brought a team of reporters to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Psychedelic Science 2025 conference and published a collection of stories from the event. This is our first report, covering the opening plenary where MAPS leadership appeared focused on a more egalitarian approach to collective activism for Psychedelic Science 2025:

“This conference is about recommitting to you all," said Betty Aldworth. "To come back down to earth, put our fingers into the soil, to nurture the neglected roots of our movement. We want to say that we are back at eye level with you and we are ready to lock arms.”

The 2025 Psychedelic Science conference kicked off on Wednesday, June 18 with a plenary talk at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

08/03/2025

And we’re back! We are Lucid News 💫

After a brief hiatus, where we dealt with an account takedown and regrouped post Psychedelic Science 2025, we are back in action providing you with accurate and balanced psychedelic coverage.

We are working hard this year to bring you exciting and relevant reports from the field. If you missed us while we were away, here are some pictures of us at PS2025 in June with our reporting team. You can get caught up on our PS2025 coverage at the link in our bio, including our daily roundups and video reports on Youtube.

Keep your eyes out for more exciting reporting to come!

07/03/2025

A recent case report published in Frontiers of Immunology details significant improvements in two multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who received ibogaine treatments. But cautious of raising the expectations of vulnerable people, scientists note the limitations of the data and call for more research. Read our story below.

A case report on two patients with multiple sclerosis has sparked hope, caution, and calls to expand the limited research data on ibogaine as a possible treatment for MS.

06/19/2025

Two former campaign staffers of the failed Yes on 4 ballot initiative in Massachusetts have filed complaints with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance alleging violations of campaign finance law.

"During our time working on the psychedelics campaign and in the months after its failure, we became aware of a pattern of mismanagement that wasted the money of individual donors and supporting organizations, contributed to the failure of the ballot question, and delayed lifesaving access to healing for the citizens of our state,” said the staffers, Graham Moore and Jamie Morey, in their statement to Lucid News.

Read more of this breaking coverage by Jack Gorsline below.

Two former campaign staffers of the failed Yes on 4 ballot initiative in Massachusetts have filed complaints with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance alleging violations of campaign finance law.

06/17/2025

Bia Labate of the Chacruna Institute believes that it’s time to rethink psychedelic risk and end the prohibitionist mindset.

Bia Labate of the Chacruna Institute believes that it's time to rethink psychedelic risk and end the prohibitionist mindset.

06/13/2025

As many psychonauts know, April 19th, 1943 was the day Dr. Albert Hofmann first intentionally took L*D. His famous bicycle ride on that momentous occasion has been celebrated annually since 1985 and is known as Bicycle Day.

But the Women's Visionary Council (WVC) is celebrating a new psychedelic holiday, Tram Day, in honor of Susi Ramstein, the first woman to take L*D on June 12, 1943. Tram Day also celebrates the often unacknowledged role of women in psychedelic history and research.

The , which is the first nonprofit organization founded to support psychedelic women, will host an afternoon Tram Day celebration on Saturday, June 14th at The Alembic in Berkeley, CA from 1-6 pm. This is WVC’s second year hosting the annual celebration of Tram Day.

Please join in celebrating women in psychedelics! And read more about Susi’s “tram trip” at the link in our bio.

06/13/2025

A new annual holiday, Tram Day, has been created to honor Susi Ramstein, the first woman to take L*D on this day in 1943. Ramstain is Dr. Albert Hofmann's lab assistant who accompanied him on the famous bicycle ride after his first intentional L*D experience.

A new annual holiday, Tram Day, has been created to honor Susi Ramstein, the first woman to take L*D and Dr. Albert Hofmann's laboratory assistant who accompanied him on his famous bicycle ride.