Magic Mushrooms & Their Many Benefits — Psilocybin is the active ingredient found in magic mushrooms, colloquially known as “shrooms”. These hallucinogenic fungi can be cultivated indoors or harvested in the wild. Alternatively, the chemical compound of psilocybin can be isolated and synthesized in a lab setting, separate from its external mushroom structure. Around the world, over…

Is LSD the Answer? — “Am I dying?” “In a way, but you will be okay.” Sean Blackwell’s niece, Eliana, had just re-experienced her own birth. Earlier, she was laughing hysterically in visions of flying, shedding her clothes, and prancing about in a proud, shameless dance. …

Mindbloom Review — In October 2020, Third Wave announced its official partnership with Mindbloom, a consumer health platform pioneering telemedicine psychedelic treatment. Since then, hundreds of people in our community have turned to Mindbloom to relieve anxiety, heal depression, and generally bring back the spark of the mystery into everyday life. I am…

The Complete Guide — This guide on the psychedelic treatment of addiction is written by Benjamin Taub from psychedelicsforaddiction.com. Psychedelics provide access to realms of consciousness that mainstream therapies simply can’t reach, and have been used to treat a range of mental health issues for centuries. A small but growing body of research is…

Where Do People Get LSD? — Being an illegal substance in nearly every country worldwide, acquiring lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) comes with a particular set of risks. We do not condone or endorse breaking the law, but we do realize that consenting adults sometimes engage in illegal activity in otherwise nonviolent ways. The “just say no”…

Everything You Need To Know — You’ve heard about how microdosing LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide, is helping people heal from poor mental health or how a single LSD-inspired mystical experience can have powerful positive effects that last decades afterwards. …

Therapeutic Use of LSD — Health can be defined in many ways, but an article published in Military Medicine defines it as a “dynamic quality of living where body, mind, and spirit are fully employed to make the most of each day.” Defined in this way, health can be considered synonymous to wholeness — a…

Welcome to the second instalment in our 2-part series about psychedelic therapy, in collaboration with Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI), an official partner of Third Wave. The harsh reality is that mental illness is spreading much faster than the field of psychiatry. What’s worse? Since the pandemic, Covid-19 has tripled the…

The Case for Using LSD to Relieve PTSD — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is difficult to treat and even harder to endure for those suffering from it. Clinical research and lived experience show that psychedelics such as LSD can produce improvements for people suffering from treatment-resistant depression, major depressive disorder, end-of-life anxiety, and a whole host of other mental…