Hallucinogen can safely ease anxiety in advanced-stage cancer patients: study
Monday, September 6, 2010 - 16:28
in Health & Medicine
In the first human study of its kind to be published in more than 35 years, researchers found psilocybin, an hallucinogen which occurs naturally in "magic mushrooms," can safely improve the moods of patients with advanced-stage cancer and anxiety, according to an article published online today in the Archives of General Psychiatry.