A Plant A Day

You’ve probably heard that tamarind may help your body detox microplastics. …Here’s what most people missed: Tamarind wasn’t even the […]

Back when Dennis McKenna and I were working together decades ago, the idea that cannabis, let alone other psychedelics, would

Last week I wrote about the Amazon flooding its atmosphere with sesquiterpenes: a chemical SOS from the canopy as the

In 2025, a paper in Cognitive Science showed that the “sensitive plant” Mimosa pudica can track the number of light–dark

This post series on botanical ingredient adulteration is inspired by the excellent work coming out of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP)

Pause for a second and really feel into this: we may be walking through a planet full of conscious beings

In our upcoming Explorer’s Way episode, Dennis McKenna and I dive into one of the strangest universal reports in psychedelic

Before we had anti‑doping rules, banning enhancement wasn’t some abstract ethical decision: it was a response to athletes literally dying.

Six new tree species in the genus Matisia from Panama and Colombia were recently named: Matisia petaquillae, M. changuinolana, M.

This post series on botanical ingredient adulteration is inspired by the excellent work coming out of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP)