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Douglas Todd: Beware the promises of vastly funded psychedelics, warn two Canadian researchers

At the heart of North America’s “renaissance” in psychedelics "is a vast new supply of funding” from big-money interests, says a top Canadian researcher at Harvard Medical School who spoke at a major Vancouver conference

As a teenager I read Aldous Huxley’s legendary book The Doors of Perception.

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The respected English philosopher explored psychedelic drugs as a mind-expanding entry into mystical experiences. The book inspired the name of Jim Morrison’s rock band, The Doors.

It was the hippie era, with all its chaotic chasing of new experiences. It led to this far too young teen trying LSD on two occasions, on my own. The first could almost, but not quite, be called a “good trip.” The second was a panic-filled “bad trip.” I never tried psychedelics again.

I stick with that decision, despite increasingly enthusiastic hype about psychedelics and other hallucinatory drugs from some mainstream media as well as from U.S. President Donald Trump, with his radical executive order last........

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