16th_Century_Prophet

Smells like I sound, at least.

Hello, thanks for doing this! I'm about to graduate with a BA in Cognitive Neuroscience and have a personal, scientific, and medical interest in psychedelic treatment, especially for addiction, so this is an awesome AMA to catch. Question at the bottom.

Edit: as info for anyone interested, there were clinical trials of LSD on things like alcoholism. Most results were ruled inconclusive, and in 1970 the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 classified LSD, among other things, as a schedule 1 narcotic. Research largely stopped after that in the US, although there were a few experiments up to and through the 90s in Europe.

A recent meta-analysis of LSD for alcoholism (Krebs & Johansen, 2012) showed statistically promising results from these past studies when controlling for certain things and analyzing all of the studies together.

Question- What do you see as the major road blocks in allowing clinical psychedelic research to restart in the US? And how is MAPS working to overcome them?

Weird coincidence, but the episode of Sesame Street with you on it for Cast Iron Cook competition or whatever was on today and I happened to come across it a few hours ago without knowing you were doing an AMA. Great work! I could tell you were enjoying it.

Now we know why Gmail went down: the Site Reliability team was way too distracted getting ready for their AMA.