Insider No. 84: Psychedelic Wellness

When several years ago an NYU colleague mentioned to Ross that LSD had once been used to treat thousands of alcoholics in Canada and the United States (and that Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, had sought to introduce LSD therapy into AA in the 1950s), Ross, who was in his thirties at the time, did some research and was “flabbergas

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as Tara Thiagarajan, founder and chief scientist at Sapien Labs, told the Washington Post, this well-being crisis is “not an isolated issue of one country. It’s a global issue.”

“I think you’ll see psychedelics decriminalized in most Western places, whether at a city, state, or national level” – Paul Austin

For most of the Hopkins volunteers I interviewed, their psilocybin journeys had taken place ten or fifteen years earlier, and yet their effects were still keenly felt, in some cases on a daily basis. “Psilocybin awakened my loving compassion and gratitude in a way I had never experienced before,” a psychologist who asked not to be named told me whe

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The Psychedelic Ecosystem will have the best chance of ensuring access, establishing robust businesses, and mitigating existential risk by eschewing legalized consumer models and promoting psychedelics as medicine and enacting decriminalization measures.