Back to the Future — The Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelic Drugs
New England Journal of Medicine April 14, 2021 Jeffrey A. Lieberman 18 citations
Aldous Huxley described his mescaline experience as the most extraordinary and significant experience available, following the 1938 synthesis of LSD by Albert Hoffman and preceding Hoffman's 1959 extraction of psilocybin from Psilocybe mexicana. The convergence of scientific research with natural substances historically used by Indigenous peoples in healing and religious rituals sparked interest in what British psychiatrist Sir Humphrey Osmond termed psychedelic (Greek for "mind manifesting") drugs.