Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor
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The War on Drugs in the US
The use and study of psychedelics, including both LSD and psilocybin, became increasingly restricted by the US government in 1968. Research on these drugs continued beyond the ban in the early 70s - Maryland had a large research center that continued to do work on psychedelics as late as 1979. But interestingly, the ban of non-medical use of psychedelics in the United States prohibited companies from patenting any psychedelic compounds. Because they were out of patent pharmaceutical companies weren't that interested in doing research on them because they couldn't patent them, they couldn't make money. This was the beginning of the war on drugs.
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