The Food and Drug Administration has restricted a psychoactive mushroom used in some edibles over safety concerns. The regulator warned food manufacturers that Amanita muscaria – more commonly known ...

The Denver Department of Public Health & Environment is warning residents not to purchase or consume PolkaDot brand chocolate ...

MDMA is part of a new wave of psychoactive drugs that show great potential for treating conditions such as severe depression and PTSD. But not everyone is convinced. And even if such drugs gain FDA ...

Testing found the bars contained psilocybin and intoxicating synthetic compounds, according to city officials.

This article was originally published in December 2021. Amanita Muscaria is an understudied species of psychoactive mushroom that’s as commonplace as it is misunderstood. The iconic red-capped, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dario Sabaghi covers the cannabis industry with a focus on Europe. The Governor of Arkansas has signed a bill to ban hemp-derived ...

Over one-third of young adults misuse their psychoactive prescription drugs, a new study has revealed. Some 34% of adults ages 18 to 25 misused their psychoactive medications, defined as opioids, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . From 2008 to 2017, there was a temporal increase in the prevalence of all forms of psychoactive substance use ...

Thanks to a bill approved as part of the package that ended the federal shutdown, intoxicating hemp products will be federally prohibited as of November 13, 2026, a year after President Donald Trump ...

Identifying “designer drugs,” or so-called “legal highs” quickly is a public health challenge plaguing hospital emergency rooms, forensic labs, and law enforcement agencies globally. These are ...