At Chacruna: Storming the Gates of Psychedelia: Scientists Commit to Collaboration in the Face of Capitalist Competition

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Sophia Rokhlin

Everyone is talking about psychedelic drugs. The late-night TV show host Chelsea Handler drinks the sacramental ayahuasca brew on Netflix. Last week, the conservative ex-House Speaker, John Boehner­­—once “unalterably opposed” to the legalization of marijuana—tweeted an announcement that he’s joining the board of a mega-investor in the budding legal cannabis industry. Best-selling author Michael Pollan writes about psychedelics in How to Change Your Mind, and micro-dosing LSD is evangelized by entrepreneurial heroes Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler in Stealing Fire... continue reading.

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