What Psychedelic Research Can Learn from Science, and What It Can Teach
The field has a frustrating tendency to make lofty claims about psychedelics that stray from the realities and limitations of the data.

The field has a frustrating tendency to make lofty claims about psychedelics that stray from the realities and limitations of the data.
As a scholar of religion who cares deeply about this psychedelic renaissance, I offer two points of caution from the perspective of my field.
Amid a fractured political landscape, a pandemic, and a reckoning with the country’s racist past, psychedelics may offer some hope for healing.
While city-wide decriminalization efforts make psilocybin a “low priority” for law enforcement, state and federal agencies provide no such guarantees.
A focus on furthering neurodiversity could allow the psychedelics decriminalization movement to gain broader public support.