“I worry that if this gets FDA approved then there’s a whole other aspect of the commercialization beyond people that need it. The people who’ve gone, who have the means, is this going to create another inequity where if you have the means, you had access to this treatment. If you don’t, this is not available to you.”

In our society, we think of psychedelics as drugs that are illegal for the most part, and, you know, dangerous… but through the span of human history, they’ve been part of our culture. These kinds of compounds grow all over the world. And so humans for millennia have been utilizing them for medicinal reasons, for ritual reasons, for religious reasons. For most of human history, they’ve been very accepted as part of our healing systems.