Psy­che­del­ic re­search gains mo­men­tum, as ear­ly tri­al sug­gests mi­cro-dos­ing LSD is safe

Psy­che­delics have been long ne­glect­ed as the sub­ject of vig­or­ous sci­en­tif­ic re­search af­ter gov­ern­ments brand­ed them as il­le­gal he­do­nis­tic com­pounds with no ther­a­peu­tic po­ten­tial. But in re­cent years, de­spite tricky reg­u­la­tions, a resur­gence of in­ter­est from re­searchers has cul­mi­nat­ed in an FDA ap­proved ke­t­a­mine-de­rived de­pres­sion treat­ment, clin­i­cal tri­als test­ing the po­ten­tial of psilo­cy­bin in ‘mag­ic mush­rooms,’ and the set­ting up of a psy­che­del­ic re­search cen­ter at Johns Hop­kins.

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