comments_image Comments  Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat PTSD?    •
submit to reddit   • submit to reddit  Kept on hold for close to
half a century, especially in the U.S., psychedelic science is
now coming back to life, in large part due to efforts by the
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and
researchers it has recruited and supported and with whom it has
won approvals to do legal studies here and abroad. This month,
MAPS held a conference with main speakers from, for example,
Harvard, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Purdue, UCLA, and leading European
universities.  Gathering predominantly in navy blue and other
sober hues, these scientists and hundreds from the psychedelic
tribe also honored figures who had kept the flame alive during
official repression. A "tribute dinner" celebrated the life of
silver-haired Sasha Shulgin, chemist of a private lab who, with
his wife Ann, led a Bay Area group that experimented with
psychoactive molecules created (or repurposed) in that lab and
described (with instructi