Matt Zemon

“Psychedelics were introduced to mainstream science in the 1940s and 1950s. After researchers studied them and, in some cases, self -experimented, it was determined that psychedelics were physically safe and able to be introduced into therapeutic contexts (dos Santos, Bouso, Alcázar-Córcoles, & Hallak, 2018). Humphrey Osmond, the British psychiatrist who coined the term “psychedelic” in the 1950s, found tremendous improvement in patients with alcoholism after a single LSD session, as an example.  Grinspoon and Balakar have noted that the scientists studying psychedelics were not considered counter-cultural or radical in their beliefs (Grinspoon & Bakalar, 1979). Before the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) rendered psychedelics such as LSD illegal in 1971, over 40,000 patients experienced psychedelic therapy sessions that were documented in over a thousand clinical papers.”
― Matt Zemon, Psychedelics For Everyone: A Beginner’s Guide to these Powerful Medicines for Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Expanding Consciousness