2020 Infamous LSD chemist Leonard Pickard, serving two life sentences, is pardoned and released from US-prison. *** The latest brain scans from a study by the Imperial College London show why people on LSD develop childlike creativity and feel at one with the universe. Former UK drugs commissioner David Nutt calls this new discovery as significant to neuroscience as the ‚Higgs boson‘ is to particle physics. *** LSD use among Americans is up 56% compared to 2017. *** Regionally increased occurrence of ergot in the wheat harvest in Germany. *** A low dose of lysergic acid diethylamide reduces the perception of pain in healthy volunteers, according to a study published in the US Journal of Psychopharmacology. *** The psychedelic experience of lysergic acid diethylamide begins with a tiny, invisible process: LSD binds to a receptor in the brain. Science has thus deciphered how psychedelic drugs work and can use this information in future to develop better drugs for many psychiatric illnesses. *** Mark Haden, professor at the University of British Columbia and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), is researching involuntary overdoses to find out what extreme amounts of LSD do to people. One person in the case study was pregnant and gave birth to a healthy baby. A second lost her bipolar behavior disorder due to the high dose of LSD and a third snorted 550 milligrams of the substance and experienced a 34 hour trip with temporary fainting and vomiting, but no lasting damage. *** Psychedelic pharmaceutical company MindMed has announced the development of a novel compound designed to stop the effects of an LSD experience. The compound is claimed to function as an “off-switch” for LSD, allowing clinicians a way to make psychedelic therapy sessions safer.