I just thought I would pass along links to two recent articles people may have missed but are worth looking at.

• The current issue of Scientific American has an excellent summary of recent work on the mechanisms of hallucinogens, which, using animal models, appears to locate their site of action in pyramidal neurons in layer V of the somatosensory cortex.
• The London Times has published a fair and informative summary of the history and practices of Santo Daime, even though the article is run under a goofy title and is found — for reasons I do not understand — in the Women’s Lifestyle pages of the newspaper.