New data shows that VR users might experience the same effects from the augmented reality as with LSD and Magic Mushrooms — This is my first article on psychedelics for more than a year and I couldn’t be more happy to share what new stuff I’ve discovered, with you, the dear psychedelics reader and enthusiast. There is a lot written on the subject on psychedelics and how each substance affects one’s perceptions…

An insight into the emerging psychedelics industry and its mental-health implications — No other psychedelic has received more media attention than Magic Mushrooms in the past couple of years. …

Some were wildly entertaining and the others were thought-provoking — This year was a prolific one for me. Especially if it comes to reading books. If I’ve calculated it correctly, twenty books a year, meant that I’ve read a book every two and a half weeks! Never have I ever done that before. Although, for the dedicated reader, twenty might…

What steps I had to follow to reach almost 7000 readers and what I learned throughout the process — Can daily writing on Medium become a profitable side hustle? It depends. I’ve seen way too many articles of Medium writers encouraging their peers to “immediately start your own blog, find your niche, and write an article a day.” …

A scientific viewpoint of why so many athletes of today boast about smoking cannabis after their training sessions — “It helps me with my physical recovery. I’ve always had this awful muscle soreness after a workout. One day I smoked a joint after I had hit the gym, and voila!, the next morning, for the first time in weeks, my body wasn’t hurting,” would tell me Chris, a lovely…

Leaving the spiritual aspect aside, meditation may be a really good way to keep your body and brain healthy — David told me that he initially started meditating in order to calm down his nerves and to better deal with his anxiety and addiction. He had been working two jobs, for 12 hours each day, whilst trying to navigate a life torn between his family struggles and an anxiety-driven mind…

It wasn’t easy to form the habit, but it was totally worth it — I first heard about mindfulness and meditation during the summer break after my third year of university. I started meditating for 3 minutes a day, guided by the Headspace app. However, I couldn’t really keep a long streak — five days was the longest I could manage. I kept on…

Weighing the pros and cons of smoking cannabis when it comes to your brain and lungs — Weed has become incredibly mainstream in the past decade or so. And this is just the beginning as more and more countries are easing their restrictions on its use and distribution. Take Germany, for example — although anything marijuana-related had been put down in the past during Merkel’s party rule…

A new 2021 study argues that adults, who microdose on psychedelics, experience lower levels of anxiety and depression, and overall perceived mental health benefits. We are currently seeing a boom in psychedelics consumption. If during the last century, substances such as LSD, psilocybin, and ayahuasca were seen as taboo, today…