How to Use psilocybin in a Sentence

psilocybin

noun

• The use of psilocybin is not without some risk, Grob said.
  — NBC News, 16 Dec. 2021
• Psychedelics, such as psilocybin, also have a role to play.
  — Husseini Manji, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2021
• Like the miraculous weed, psilocybin comes from the earth.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 25 May 2018
• Matthews and Fluck very much respect the power of psilocybin.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 10 June 2019
• Although research on compounds like LSD and psilocybin boomed in the ’50s and ’60s, things took a turn.
  — Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022
• In the new study, one group of 48 people received two doses of psilocybin a month apart.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
• All of this points to the greater need for research into promising drugs like psilocybin.
  — Cory Stieg, refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• In fact, this study marks the first time that psilocybin has been found in any fungi except mushrooms.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 29 June 2019
• The measure did not allow for the retail sale of psilocybin, but for the past month or so, Shroom House sold the substance openly.
  — oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2022
• There are plenty of psychedelics researchers could work on, but the focus is on psilocybin.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2019
• The Hallmark card-ish content of messages like that could be what turns many people away from the idea of psilocybin.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2022
• The four- to five-hour trips of psilocybin and MDMA keep the critical period open for two weeks.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• So the lovebirds share a hit of psilocybin — dropping ’shrooms is a standard Chapin dating move — and decamp to Bangkok.
  — Allan Fallow, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
• The psilocybin sessions are expected to be available to the public in mid- or late-2023.
  — Andrew Selsky and Mike Corder, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• Stressed mice didn’t want the sugar water, but a day after a dose of psilocybin plus a drug to block the psychedelic response, the stressed mice went for the treat.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 13 May 2021
• The study was designed to test the safety of different dosages of the proprietary version of psilocybin.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• But this group of mothers is bucking that trend and using psilocybin to heal trauma.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• In one pilot study, smokers got two or three doses of psilocybin.
  — Michael Pollan, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• The trick to this framework is that the consumption of psilocybin can occur in these centers and these centers only.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• But psilocybin has been studied for some symptoms that overlap with menopause.
  — Jennifer Chesak, Verywell Health, 13 July 2023
• Last month, Denver became the first city in the U.S. to decriminalize the use of psilocybin mushrooms.
  — Alexis Reliford, refinery29.com, 10 June 2019
• In rats, the psilocybin treatment produced results that persisted for hours after the compound had been cleared from the body.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• Speaking of, a guy with RDE is likely training for a marathon or playing some sort of sport—and he’s priced out at least a small handful of psilocybin retreats.
  — Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 18 June 2023
• The volunteer had received the placebo, a trivial dose of psilocybin.
  — Brendan Borrell, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Full-dose psilocybin trips usually run in excess of six hours.
  — Wired, 28 July 2022
• And, like cannabis, psilocybin has minimal risk of lethal overdose.
  — Kevin F. Boehnke, The Conversation, 10 May 2024
• This is not the first trial to experiment with psilocybin.
  — Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2022
• Because they’re either bombed on psilocybin or under the control of the fungus in some other way, the cicadas won’t even notice.
  — Jon Webb, USA TODAY, 14 May 2021
• The process of extracting psilocybin from mushrooms is labor-intensive and produces a low yield.
  — Christine Ricciardi, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Nearly $3 million in psilocybin mushrooms seized in Riverside County.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025