Mia Levitin

Are hallucinogenic drugs losing their stigma?

The UK seems on the brink of a ‘psychedelic renaissance’ – but, stripped of shamanic ritual and sanitised for medicinal purposes, will psilocybin retain its power?

Magic mushrooms, whose main active elements are the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin. [Getty Images]

  • Psychedelics: The Revolutionary Drugs that Could Change Your Life

    David Nutt

    Yellow Kite, pp. 336, £20

  • Ten Trips: The New Reality of Psychedelics

    Andy Mitchell

    Bodley Head, pp. 352, £22

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