VolteFace: Trips and Traps: Psychedelics Seek Legitimacy in the World of Modern Medicine

Summary: VolteFace investigates the hurdles associated with funding research into the medical potential of psychedelics. “I’d like to say that we’ve come a long way and we’re moving into a period of great acceptance, but these studies are still difficult and costly and lengthy. This applies to any human pharmacology study, but most of that research is sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry, and there’s no pharma industry money here.”