A group of private donors has given $17 million to start the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine, making it what’s believed to be the first such research center in the U.S. and the largest research center of its kind in the world.
This is massive news.
I haven’t read Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind, but I think I’ve listened to every podcast he’s been on in his press cycle. I think the book will be help America understand and destigmatize psychedelics. In it, he writes about the tremendous research that is showing the benefits of LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) for treating depression, anxiety, and addiction.
Read a short excerpt of Pollan’s book here.