Ashley Booth, an oceanographer, describes how a transformative experience at Burning Man changed her outlook, then surveys psychedelic research: psilocybin and LSD for cluster headaches, MAPS’s MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD entering phase three trials, and ibogaine for opiate withdrawal. She criticizes the Schedule I research catch-22 and cites drug-harm rankings placing psychedelics below alcohol.
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