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Last updated: July 28th, 2020
It doesn't matter if you're new to the psychedelic community or an experienced psychonaut with hundreds of trips under your belt—finding blogs and publications that cover the news about psychedelics is tough.
But since I’ve been reporting psychedelic news for more than five years, I’ve accumulated a long list of potential news sources that I regularly scan for interesting stuff to share on this blog and my YouTube channel. So I figured I’d use my expertise to put together this resource guide to help my fellow psychonauts find the best psychedelic blogs and publications on the Internet.
The blogs and publications on this list are all different. Some focus exclusively on one particular plant medicine, like cannabis or ayahuasca. Others cover news about a variety of different psychoactive drugs. All of them have at least a few pieces related to psychedelics, and the collection features such a broad range of editorial styles that I can guarantee you’ll find at least a few that you’ll want to start reading on the reg.
The list is sorted alphabetically. Without further ado, here they are:
Adventures Through the Mind
Adventures Through the Mind is a blog focusing on psychedelic culture. The content is produced by Canadian author and public educator, James W. Jesso, who is the author of Decomposing The Shadow: Lessons From The Psilocybin Mushroom and The True Light Of Darkness, both about his experiences exploring the potentials of psychedelics.
Beckley Foundation
The Beckley Foundation is a UK-based think-tank and NGO founded and directed by Amanda Feilding. Its purpose is to pioneer psychedelic research and drive evidence-based drug policy reform.
Big Think
Big Think is where top experts explore big ideas and core skills that define the 21st century, including articles like Can Psychedelics Help You Expand Your Mind? and Can Psychedelics Make Us More Moral?
Botanical Dimensions
Botanical Dimensions is a non-profit ethnobotanical preserve founded on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1985 by Kathleen Harrison and the late Terence McKenna. Its mission is to collect, protect, propagate, and understand plants of ethno-medical significance, including their lore. The organization attempts to appreciate, study, and educate others about plants and mushrooms that are significant to cultural integrity and spiritual well-being. The blog focuses on topics like plants, fungi, culture, food, native knowledge, healing, and shamanism.
Chacruna
Chacruna is a collective of intellectuals and creatives that love to redefine common knowledge about psychedelic plant medicines. Its contributors include leading anthropologists, psychologists, journalists, neuroscientists, philosophers, therapists, and wordsmiths with deep or new knowledge about psychedelic plant medicines.
The Daily Psychedelic Video
The Daily Psychedelic Video is the biggest collection of curated psychedelic videos on the web. The site is run by a team of psychedelic video aficionados dedicated to finding the best psychedelic videos out there. It has been active daily since April 2010, and includes more than 3,000 psychedelic videos.
Dedicated to the exploration of psychedelic aesthetics in cinema, TV, commercials and web videos, the DPV was created so that any person in the midst of a mind blowing psychedelic experience can have easy access to high-quality psychedelic material.
DMT Times
DMT Times was launched for several reasons. It is a hub and information point for users of DMT and ayahuasca: a place for those interested to find out about the latest news and events, conduct research, and discuss all aspects of their experiences with likeminded people.
There are many resources on the site, from movies and documentaries to books, articles, artwork and of course insights from the authors, John and Caroline. These will continue to grow over time, and soon there will also be interviews with authorities in the field, podcasts, local events and discussions, and more.
DoubleBlind
DoubleBlind is a biannual print magazine and media company covering timely, untold stories about the expansion of psychedelics around the globe. It isn’t speaking to the veteran tripper nor evangelizing to the anti-drug square. DoubleBlind is for everyone who is curious about psychedelics. This publication features fresh perspectives on some of the most important issues of our time: the depression epidemic, the corporatization of medicine, and the aching that people around the globe feel for spirituality or some other collective sense of meaning. Dive deep below the surface of the daily news cycle through long-form reported features, poetry, visual art, and provocative photo essays offered both online and in print.
Drug Policy Alliance
The Drug Policy Alliance envisions a just society in which the use and regulation of drugs are grounded in science, compassion, health, and human rights, in which people are no longer punished for what they put into their own bodies but only for crimes committed against others, and in which the fears, prejudices, and punitive prohibitions of today are no more. Their mission is to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.
Drug WarRant
As the art of blogging evolves, few have utilized this tool as effectively for anti-marijuana-prohibition advocacy as Pete Guither. Check him out at DrugWarRant.com and enter the Drug War Rant community. Both of these outlets were the result of Pete’s anger at the continued prohibition of cannabis. What started out as research and writing primarily for his own edification has blossomed into a powerful online forum and community of drug-policy reformers that provides a valuable service by supplying activists with news and information on the latest scientific, legal and political developments.
Filter
Filter launched in September 2018 and is based in New York City. Its mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights.
Freedom and Fulfilment
Writer Aaron Simon started his blog Freedom and Fulfilment to write about his experience and share ideas on self improvement, spirituality, and how we can create the best lives for ourselves and others. He has published several posts about psychedelics, including Mystical Experience & Psychedelics: Meaningful, Measurable, Life Changing and Can We Derive Values From Psychedelic Experience?
Heffter Research Institute
The Heffter Research Institute was incorporated in New Mexico in 1993 as a non-profit, 501(c)(3) scientific organization. Since its inception, Heffter has been helping to design, review, and fund the leading studies on psilocybin at prominent research institutions in the US and Europe. Their research has explored psilocybin for the treatment of cancer-related distress and addiction, for understanding the relationship between the psychedelic experience and spirituality, and for basic science research into the physiology of brain activity, cognition, and behavior. The Heffter Institute believes that psychedelics have great, unexplored potential that requires independently funded scientific research to find their best uses in medical treatment.
Hester is not an endowed foundation, and so there is a continuous need for funding to support this critical research.
Herb
Herb is not the couch-locked stoner caricature sketched by politicians with a hidden agenda and a lack of imagination. Its writers are diverse. They are free thinkers. They are achievers. And they are not here to scare your parents. They believe that cannabis is more than just a plant. Above all, Herb believes that cannabis is a catalyst to experience, to curiosity, to culture, to community, and to health. It’s not about the plant. It’s about what you choose to do with it.
Herb exists to empower our users to use cannabis to transform their bodies, minds and souls. They want you to do one thing: Grow.
HighExistence Magazine
HighExistence Magazine is for the young movers and shakers who want to put a dent in the world. For the up-and-coming artists, creative types, and entrepreneurs. This magazine will take you by the hand and show you how to live a Higher Existence. Every single article in HighExistence Magazine has a section at the end that explains how the article applies to your life and provides simple, practical steps to follow to implement the teachings.
High Times
High Times is the definitive resource for all things cannabis. From cultivation and legalization, to entertainment and culture, to hard-hitting news exposing the War on Drugs, High Times has been the preeminent source for cannabis information since 1974.
The Institute for the Advancement of Psychedelic Christianity
The IAPC is an organizational body whose purpose is to advance the cause of psychedelic Christianity by informing the public of the existence of this way of thinking about Christianity. It is not a church. The organization encourages people to join whatever church they believe tells the most truth and does not endorse any political parties, candidates, or positions. It encourages people to lighten up about politics, to treat them more like a sport and less like a religion, on the grounds that worldly politics will never lead to the kingdom of heaven.
Kahpi: The Ayahuasca Hub
Kahpi is the result of a large collective energy of people with long-term engagement with the realities of ayahuasca culture, science, and experiences. The site features a powerful series of ayahuasca video courses taught by 10 carefully-selected world-renowned teachers. As a charity organization, Kahpi is grateful to receive generous donations from around the world. These donations enable them to offer the Kahpi courses free to access.
Note: I am a contributor at Kahpi. If you would like to check out my work there, you can visit my author page.
Ladybud
Ladybud is the #1 women’s lifestyle publication with a focus on activism specific to drug war reform and other socially progressive issues. This publication fills a void in both mainstream and drug policy reform media. Traditional marijuana media focuses on young men and features content about cultivation and party culture. While Ladybud respects these roots, they are doing something very different. Their writers are mostly women in their 20s-60s who cover a wide variety of topics: marijuana activism, culture, beauty, sex, and food. They identify as the average modern woman who also believes the drug war is one of the greatest social and civil rights issues facing our nation and the world today.
Leafly
Leafly is the world’s largest cannabis information resource. They make the process of finding the right strains and products for you fast, simple, and comfortable. The Leafly "News" page features the latest cannabis news, including what's new in politics and pop culture, information, lifestyle tips, and more. Whether you’re new to cannabis, a medical marijuana patient, or a seasoned consumer, Leafly is the perfect destination for you!
LIMINAL
LIMINAL is a magazine for strange times. It covers a wide range of topics: the planet, the human body, arts, and science, just to name a few. This publication provides trusted context and framing for a new cultural paradigm, one that embraces inner experience – the realm of the psyche – as well as material, ecological, and political necessities.
Lucid News
Lucid News provides informed, honest, and transparent journalism that covers the growing integration of psychedelics into society and their broad implications for human wellness. Founded by longtime participants of psychedelic communities who bring discernment and a healthy skepticism to their work, this publication offers news and opinions from a wide range of perspectives to help readers navigate this pivotal moment of innovation and transformation.
MAPS Bulletin
MAPS (the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) publishes the MAPS Bulletin three times a year. The print edition is is mailed to members who donate $50 or more per year ($60 international) to support the organization’s research and educational initiatives, and the MAPS Bulletin Archive contains free electronic versions of each issue, stretching all the way back to 1988! MAPS also distributes the Bulletin as an educational tool for scientists, researchers, government officials, drug war prisoners, and educators. The MAPS Bulletin began as a one-page newsletter in 1988. In 1995, after growing successively longer with each issue, the newsletter became the MAPS Bulletin. Two out of three issues a year feature full-color thematic artwork on the covers.
Maps of the Mind
Blogger John Andrew created Maps of the Mind to share his experiences, pass on ideas and resources, and to inspire others. Through his experiences he has come to believe that the most powerful tool for transformation is the mind, so a lot of what he writes is based around three related areas: psychedelics, travel, and meditation.
To John, these three areas have an interesting crossover—there is a reason why psychedelic experiences are called “trips” and in the same way he believes that travel and meditation can be psychedelic inasmuch as they can be mind-opening and lead to a greater understanding and appreciation of self and the world. They have all been hugely influential in shaping who he is and his work aims to shape his readers as well.
Marijuana Moment
If you need up-to-the-minute news on the politics, business, and culture of cannabis, you’re in the right place. Edited by Tom Angell, a 15+ year veteran of the legalization movement, Marijuana Moment helps activists, industry professionals, consumers, policymakers, and the public understand developments and trends affecting cannabis.
Merry Jane
MERRY JANE is a new generation's definitive resource for news, culture, and video covering cannabis and beyond. Through exclusive content and engaging perspectives, MERRY JANE brings together the most important information and entertainment for today's audience while also offering vital, interactive tools to explore the new frontier of cannabis products, dispensaries, events, and community. Roll with MERRY JANE!
NeuroticBuddha
There are many pitfalls along the path. Misinformation, quackery, and sometimes just plain lunacy make it difficult for the skeptical yet interested individual to see the real value of the spiritual path through the fog. NeuroticBuddha is for these very people. Written by Michael Stone, this project is for sound minded individuals who are cautious to walk the path and wish to approach it rationally but also with a wondrous curiosity that there is something more profound to be discovered about life. Michael's aim is to thoughtfully explore the wisdom in Buddhism, meditation, psychedelic use, and other spiritual pursuits in order to, even just slightly, silence that neurotic voice within.
New Moon Musings
New Moon Musings is an up-and-coming blog written by Maia Snow, a psybass DJ and PHD student researching gender and psychedelic/visionary culture and mixing it all together to create original commentary about the psychedelic community.
NORML
NORML's mission is to move public opinion sufficiently to legalize the responsible use of marijuana by adults, and to serve as an advocate for consumers to assure they have access to high quality marijuana that is safe, convenient, and affordable.
The Oak Tree Review
The intent of The Oak Tree Review is to investigate the many branches of psychedelic culture throughout history. Special interest is taken in its manifestations in art and literature.
Psilocybin Alpha
Psilocybin Alpha provides information, research, news and interviews from the emergent psychedelic industry so you can cut through the “shroom stock” noise and make sound decisions when choosing psychedelic companies to invest in.
Psychedelics Daily
Psychedelics Daily was started by Hash C Borgir, a Bhang Sadhu (Cannabis Shaman) from Punjab who was raised by his Shaman grandmother and trained in the Arcane Techniques of Ecstasy since the age of three. Hash has traveled the world looking to study the nature of the Sacrality of Manifested Experience from the Masters of Primacy, the Technicians of the Sacred, and the scientists of Ecstasy. Currently residing in the USA, Hash C Borgir has created Psychedelics Daily as a sub-project of The Stoned Apes Non-Profit, spreading psychedelic awareness to decondition the mind, one day at a time.
Psychedelic Frontier
The aim of Psychedelic Frontier is to:
Encourage the responsible exploration of non-ordinary mental states.
Provide information that enables people to gain better control over their own minds, both in transcendental states and in everyday life.
Share stories about the writer's transcendental experiences. These are not your average trip reports.
Spread reliable information and ideas on a topic that is fraught with misinformation and controversy.
Oppose the dogma, elitism, and pseudoscience that often plague discussions about psychedelics.
Psychedelic Press UK
Psychedelic Press UK was established in 2008 as a blog dedicated to the literature of psychedelic substances. In 2012 it launched a printed house journal, which now comes out 4 times a year, and a new publisher was established to manage both the journal and various other print publications.
As a result, PsypressUK.com is now focused on being an extensive database of book reviews dealing exclusively with drug-related literature. A free web resource for academics and the psychoactively-curious, it aims at providing an extensive introduction to the culture, science, and history of psychedelics.
Psychedelic Science Review
Psychedelic Science Review discusses scientific research and knowledge about psychedelics, from chemistry to psychology. Science writers break down complex topics, offering context and connecting important concepts in the literature to familiar examples. This publication also offers background information about psychedelic compounds, an ever-changing history of events surrounding psychedelics, and the organizations and people involved in progressing this resurgent field.
Psychedelic Science Review provides an exclusively scientific perspective on psychedelics. Its writers are not proponents or opponents of political or social change, nor do they offer moral commentary. While there is a place for those voices, this publication’s goal is to offer factual information on the basis of scientific relevance.
The Psychedelic Scientist
The Psychedelic Scientist is a blog dedicated to sharing the highlights of worldwide psychedelic research. It is a resource for interested scientists, psychonauts or laypeople who want to learn more about research into psychedelics, and how they can enhance our lives.
The Psychedelic Society
The Psychedelic Society advocates the careful use of psychedelics as a tool for personal and spiritual development. The profound experiences of unity and interconnectedness reliably brought about by strong psychedelic trips can help people to live lives of greater love, compassion, and joy.
Psychedelic.Support
Psychedelic.Support is committed to bring individual and global transformation through sharing of knowledge and connection to resources.
The organization saw a need for better connection to therapeutic care related to use of psychedelics and set out to use its skills, connections, and the Internet to give greater visibility to practices and programs of professionals working in this field. This global web-based platform is a guidepost for trusted care and evidence-based information.
Psychedelic Times
The mission at Psychedelic Times is to share the latest news, research, and happenings around the study of psychedelics as tools of healing, recovery, and therapy. They are passionate about the incredible potential that psychoactive substances such as marijuana, ayahuasca, MDMA, LSD, iboga, psilocybin, and DMT present to humanity, and are excited to share that passion with you.
Note: I am a contributor at Psychedelic Times. If you would like to check out my work there, you can visit my author page.
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today is dedicated to exploring and discussing the important academic/scientific and other research in the field of psychedelics. They are interested in how psychedelics and other non-ordinary states of consciousness relate to the human potential as well as the healing potential that they can foster.
Psymposia
Since being founded in 2014, Psymposia has become a leading educational media and events group for rethinking drugs, in person and online. They bring students, researchers, and diverse voices together from around the world to share fresh perspectives, ask new questions, push boundaries, and shine a spotlight on how emerging psychedelic science and drug policy reform can transform society, law, and medicine. Through investigative journalism, personal stories, and deep conversation series, Psymposia illuminates how emerging trends shape society, law, and medicine.
PsyPost
The mission at PsyPost is to spread objective information about psychology and neuroscience research. By reporting on a wide variety of important, interesting, and overlooked studies, PsyPost provides the general public, mental health professionals, and academics with free updates on new research — providing everyone with a glimpse into the latest knowledge being uncovered by scientists.
The publication covers the latest discoveries in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, sociology and similar fields.
Reality Sandwich
Reality Sandwich is a magazine of ideas for the transformational community. They cover subjects like shamanism, non-local consciousness, visionary art, alternative economics, psychedelics, permaculture, transformational festivals, meditation, democratic engagement, near death experiences, and tantra, to name but a few. Together these topics are the heart of a vibrant new transformational culture that’s addressing the social, spiritual, and ecological crises of our time.
Note: I have previously contributed to Reality Sandwich. If you would like to check out my work there, you can visit my author page.
Reset.me
Reset.me provides journalism on natural therapies and medicines to enhance the mind, body, and spirit. Reset.me strives to help expand consciousness and spread more love around the world. The team behind Reset.me endeavors to build a community that connects like-minded individuals worldwide to promote the sharing of knowledge and experiences. Reset your mind. Reset your life.
Rick Strassman MD
Rick Strassman is a medical doctor specialized in psychiatry with a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research. He has held a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California San Diego and was Professor of Psychiatry for eleven years at the University of New Mexico. After twenty years of intermission, Strassman was the first person in the United States to undertake human research with psychedelic, hallucinogenic, or entheogenic substances with his research on DMT. He is also the author of the well known book DMT: The Spirit Molecule which summarizes his academic research into DMT and includes his own reflections and conclusions based on this research.
Rooster
It's a mindset. It's a release. It's a magazine that allows you to relax and fully engross yourself in a humorous and provocative editorial journey that won't drain, but enlighten and excite. The team at Rooster gives you hope that not all journalism comes from the same source or homogenous mentality to make another dollar with repurposed content. They give you an escape from the inevitable and burdensome troubles of life.
Sam Woolfe
Sam Woolfe is a freelance writer and blogger currently based in London, UK. He created his blog more than seven years ago with the aim of sharing a range of interesting ideas and his thoughts on them, as well as to generate healthy debate and discussion. Sam strives to write in a balanced, curious, and thought-provoking way and enjoy creating well-researched content that readers find insightful and useful.
As a writer, his specialist areas include mental health, current affairs, self-development, careers, and travel. His blog delves into many topics of interest, including (but not limited to):
Spirituality
Buddhism
Psychology
Psychedelics
Moral philosophy
Applied ethics
Evolutionary theory
Culture and society
The human condition
Sapiensoup Blog
If you want answers to tough questions you could probably find them easily at the touch of a button. However, in today’s world we find ourselves flooded by vast amounts of information. And that’s where Sapiensoup Blog comes in. The two bloggers that run the site love science and numbers, and they question everything. Nadine is a research scientist, and Marlene is a marketing manager. Together, they sift through the fog of information to provide their readers with the opportunity to make informed decisions.
Spirit Pharmacist
Benjamin Malcolm teaches psychopharmacology and clinical psychiatric pharmacy, practices as a clinical specialist in psychiatric pharmacy, and performs clinical research on psychoactive drugs. He also run a blog on his website, Spirit Pharmacist, which offers up unique analysis about psychedelics that often focuses on the dangers of combining them with other drugs.
Stop The Drug War
StoptheDrugWar.org publishes the publication Stop The Drug War and the Drug War Chronicle newsletter, a widely-read publication that is a staple tool of organizations and advocates worldwide and a venue in which their work is highlighted to others. Their current advocacy focus is international drug policy. They organized sign-on letters and statements during the lead-up to the April 2016 "UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem" (UNGASS), and continue to promote a broad policy reform agenda for the UN and the US Congress and administration.
Techgnosis
Techgnosis is a website run by Erik Davis, an author, award-winning journalist, independent scholar, and lecturer based in San Francisco. His blog covers a wide variety of topics and includes many psychedelic-related posts.
The Third Wave
The First Wave was indigenous use of psychedelics for thousands of years. The Second Wave was the use of psychedelics during the counter-culture of the 60s and 70s. The Third Wave is upon us now. Brought about by recent developments in cannabis legalization and psychedelic research—and it will change the way mainstream culture perceives psychedelic use. The Third Wave provides well-researched, high-quality information specific to the classic psychedelics—and how they can be used to help people like you live more vibrant lives.
Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D.
Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D. is a Professor of Educational Psychology at Northern Illinois University, DeKaIb, Illinois, where he has taught courses on transpersonal, mind-body, psychedelic, and consciousness topics. He is also the author of the book The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Value. His Academia.edu profile features papers, talks, teaching documents, and many more resources that he has created.
The Trip Report
If you’re looking for intelligent analysis of the blossoming psychedelic industry with a uniquely humorous spin, then look no further than Zach Hainey’s The Trip Report. It’s a weekly newsletter for the builders of the emerging psychedelic ecosystem that covers the business, policy, and impact of psychedelics. In addition to Wednesday’s free-for-all-dispatch, paid subscribers get additional The Trip Report Pro updates every Monday and Friday with more in-depth news and analysis from the land of psychedelia.
VICE
VICE is a magazine focused on arts, culture, and news topics. Founded in 1994 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the magazine's founders later launched Vice Media, which consists of divisions including the magazine as well as a website, broadcast news unit, a film production company, a record label, and a publishing imprint. VICE regularly publishes articles about psychedelics and drug culture.
Westword
More than 1.6 million active users read Westword each month to find stories on everything from political scandals to the hottest new bands, with gutsy reporting, stylish writing, and staffers who’ve won everything from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi feature-writing award to the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. Four decades after its founding, Westword remains the voice of Denver for faithful readers who appreciate hard-hitting journalism. And better beer.
That concludes the list. Hopefully you learned about a few more psychedelic blogs and publications that you'd like to read. I plan to keep this blog post updated as old blogs die and new ones are born, so if you notice that there are any that I missed or if others have gone defunct, please contact me and let me know. And don't forget to share this post with your network so we can funnel more traffic to these websites and spread the love!
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