Summary: MAPS Founder Rick Doblin, Ph.D., speaks at the Psymposia conference on September 13, 2014, about how the war on drugs began in the 1960s, why he founded MAPS in 1986, and how MAPS is helping reintegrate and legitimize altered states of consciousness in modern society.
Originally appearing here.
In this episode of “People: On Drugs,” Rick Doblin, PhD, Founder and Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), shares his experience growing up in the Sixties and how that shaped his interest in reintegrating an appreciation of altered states of consciousness and advocating for a reevaluation of psychedelics based on science and human rights.