Summary: The Tink Tink Club interviews Acid Test author Tom Shroder about the birth and reemergence of psychedelic research. During the interview, Shroder speaks about MAPS’ continuous efforts to support psychedelic research, the immense obstacles standing in the way of developing psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy into a prescription treatment, and how the the discovery of various psychedelics affected science, culture, and politics.
Listen to the interview here.
Tom Shroder is a journalist, Pulitzer prize winning editor, and the author of Acid Test: LSD, Ecstacy, and the Power to Heal. He explains the process of MDMA assisted psychotherapy along with the history of MDMA’s rise from party drug to harbinger of hope.