Why Element of Play Needs More Attention in Conversations About Psychedelics
After decades of criminalization in most countries across the world, psychedelics are finally having their moment in the light. Early research in the 1950s and 1960s indicated that psychedelics had some therapeutic potential, but new drug-safety policies from the FDA halted further research efforts and relegated psychedelic use to a select few. However, recent successes in drug-reform campaigns in the United States has given psychedelics another chance without the mostly political barriers that prevented its research in decades past. A growing body of scientific literature now shows that psychedelics such as LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca and DMT may have the ability…
