Last updated: July 2026. We review these standards annually and note material revisions here.

Psychedelics Today publishes journalism, interviews, education, commentary, and analysis about psychedelics, mental health, culture, science, policy, and spirituality.

These standards describe how we report, verify, and disclose. They apply to everything we publish: articles, podcasts and newsletters.

We represent emerging ideas without overstating the evidence, and we distinguish between reporting, analysis, opinion, education, and promotion.

Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions are made by the Psychedelics Today editorial lead, as of today, this is our co-founder, Editorial Director and CEO, Joe Moore.

Sponsors, advertisers, investors, commercial partners, course instructors, and event partners do not control our editorial conclusions. Financial relationships help support our work. They do not guarantee favorable coverage or prevent critical reporting.

When a financial, professional, or personal relationship could affect how a reader interprets a piece, we disclose it.

Accuracy and Fact-Checking

We verify factual claims before publication. Depending on the format, that may include peer-reviewed research, government documents and legislation, court filings and public records, clinical trial registries, company statements, interviews, and original audio, video, and transcripts.

Scientific and medical knowledge changes. We describe the strength of available evidence accurately and avoid presenting early findings, anecdotes, or hypotheses as settled.

Sources and Attribution

We attribute ideas, quotations, research findings, and reporting to their original sources.

Anonymous sources may be used when there is a legitimate reason to protect someone from professional, legal, personal, or physical harm. When we grant anonymity, editors know the source’s identity and assess their credibility.

We do not knowingly publish fabricated quotations, invented sources, or misleading representations of research.

Reporting, Analysis, and Opinion

Reported articles are based on interviews, documents, research, and independently verified information.

Analysis interprets developments, evidence, policy, or cultural trends and may include the author’s informed perspective.

Opinion and commentary reflect the views of the named author, not necessarily those of Psychedelics Today, its staff, sponsors, or partners.

Podcast and interview content reflects a conversation with an invited guest. Hosting a guest is not an endorsement of every claim they make.

Scientific, Medical, and Health Claims

We cover substances and practices that carry psychological, medical, legal, and social risks.

Our content is for education and public discussion. It is not a substitute for individualized medical, psychiatric, psychological, legal, or emergency advice.

We distinguish among established evidence, preliminary research, clinical observation, traditional and community knowledge, personal experience, and speculation.

We cover off-label, investigational, underground, ceremonial, and legally restricted practices because they are part of the field. Coverage is not a recommendation to participate in them.

Corrections and Updates

We correct material errors when we find them.

Minor spelling, grammar, formatting, and clarity edits are made without a correction notice. Corrections that change the meaning of a piece are noted on the page. When new information materially changes an article, we explain what changed.

To request a correction, use our contact form below with the article title, URL, and a description of the issue.

Conflicts of Interest

Writers, editors, hosts, and contributors disclose relationships that could reasonably be seen as influencing their work, including employment or advisory roles, ownership or investments, paid consulting, research funding, board membership, legal disputes, personal or professional relationships, and ownership of products, clinics, training programs, or intellectual property discussed in the piece.

A disclosed conflict does not disqualify someone from contributing. Readers should have enough context to evaluate the work.

Sponsored and Partner Content

Sponsored, paid, and partner-supported content is clearly labeled. Sponsors may suggest topics or provide factual background. They do not receive undisclosed editorial control. Advertisements and paid placements are distinguishable from independent editorial content. Affiliate relationships are disclosed.

Podcasts and Transcripts

Transcripts may be generated with automated software and lightly edited for readability. Automated transcripts contain errors involving names, terminology, punctuation, speaker identification, and meaning. The original audio remains the authoritative record.

Show notes, timestamps, summaries, and episode descriptions are editorial aids. They condense and organize a conversation rather than reproduce it.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

We use AI and automated tools for production tasks: transcription, transcript cleanup, summaries and show notes, search optimization, metadata, headline development, research organization, and formatting.

These tools do not replace editorial responsibility. Published material is subject to human review, editing, and judgment. We do not treat AI-generated text as a source, and we do not use automated output in place of verification or fact-checking.

When AI plays an unusually substantial role in a specific piece, we disclose it on that page.

Images and Visual Media

Images may include original photography, licensed media, archival material, illustrations, composites, or AI-assisted visuals. Illustrative images are not presented in a way that implies they document a real event. Material alterations, composites, and generated imagery are disclosed when their nature would not otherwise be clear.

Diversity of Perspective

The psychedelic field includes researchers, clinicians, patients, Indigenous communities, religious practitioners, traditional healers, underground practitioners, advocates, critics, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and people directly affected by prohibition.

We do not treat any single institution, profession, worldview, or commercial interest as the sole authority on psychedelics. That does not mean presenting every position as equally credible. Claims are evaluated on the quality of their evidence, sourcing, context, and consequences.

Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Practices

Coverage of Indigenous and traditional practices requires particular care. We avoid presenting living traditions as raw material detached from the communities that sustain them. Relevant reporting considers consent, reciprocity, cultural authority, intellectual property, ecological impact, commercialization, and benefit-sharing.

No single spokesperson is treated as representing an entire culture, lineage, or community.

Privacy, Trauma, and Vulnerable Sources

We take additional care when reporting on trauma, mental health crises, sexual harm, criminalization, medical emergencies, and altered states.

Editors may withhold identifying details when publication could cause disproportionate harm and those details are not necessary to the story. Consent to be interviewed does not remove our responsibility to consider the foreseeable consequences of publishing.

Contributor Responsibilities

Contributors are responsible for the accuracy and originality of their submissions. Submissions must not contain plagiarism, fabricated material, undisclosed promotional content, manipulated quotations, or substantial reuse of previously published work without disclosure. Editors may request source documents, recordings, disclosures, or revisions before publication.

Reader Feedback

We welcome good-faith criticism, corrections, and questions about our editorial process. Use the form below to email us with the relevant article or episode, a link to the page, and enough detail for us to evaluate the concern.