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How Researchers and Advocates of Color Are Forging Their Own Paths in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
By Steph Yin — 2020
We’re seeing an explosion of medical research into psychedelics. Psilocybin, or shrooms, to treat major depressive disorder. Ayahuasca, a psychotropic plant medicine from the Amazon, and ibogaine, a potent hallucinogen from Africa, to treat addiction. LSD for anxiety.
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