Magic mushrooms

The active ingredient in magic mushrooms has been hailed as mental health wonder-drug. But some treatment journeys end up a very bad trip.

People having perpetual hallucinations from psychedelic drugs are finding a community on TripTok. But how rare is the condition, and is it becoming more common?

Gucci, Fiorucci, Stüssy and Marc Jacobs’ Heaven all helped dub 2020 the year of the mushroom. But here’s why the roots of mycelium mania run a little deeper, well into the new year and, no doubt, the rest of the decade.

Harvesting mushrooms requires only a little more patience than taking to TikTok or baking banana bread. Could psilocybin be effective in guiding us through to a better place? Those in the know weigh in.