Guides

Short, sourced, and built from the same records as the listings. No promises of a cure: these are about going in with your eyes open.

• What a psilocybin retreat costs

  Published prices from every listed centre, by place, with what is and is not included.

• Oregon, Colorado or abroad?

  A licensed session in a US state against a residential retreat overseas: law, format, age and cost.

• Safety and medications

  Lithium, antidepressants and the conditions centres screen for, each with its study.

• What happens on a retreat

  From the intake form to the integration call, for licensed sessions and retreats abroad.

• Integration, and what to ask for

  How many centres include integration support, and the questions that tell you what it means.

• The Netherlands: why truffles, not mushrooms

  The 2008 mushroom ban, the truffle exemption, and why fresh versus dried matters.

• Jamaica: unscheduled is not licensed

  Mushrooms were never in Jamaica's drug law, and nobody licenses retreats. What that means for you.