Race and ethnicity moderate the associations between lifetime psilocybin use and crime arrests
Frontiers in Psychiatry August 24, 2023 Grant Jones, Patrick Mair, Maha Al‐suwaidi et al. 10 citations
Lifetime psilocybin use is associated with lower odds of arrest for property crime, assault, serious violence, and miscellaneous crimes in a large US sample. However, race and ethnicity moderate these associations: psilocybin conferred reduced odds of at least one crime arrest outcome for White, Indigenous, Asian, and Multiracial participants, but not for Black or Hispanic participants. The authors suggest that structural factors such as systemic racism may underlie these differences and call for intersectional research on sociodemographic factors, psychedelic use, and crime.