It's been 50 years since the U.S. government funded research into whether a classic psychedelic could have therapeutic uses. This fall, that changed. We go into detail on how that changed in the new column from the editors of doubleblindmag
as therapeutic tools almost entirely stopped. Then, beginning in the 1990s with a study looking at DMT, and picking up in the 2000s with research at Johns Hopkins University looking at psilocybin for depression and anxiety in terminally ill patients, an abundance of psychedelic research began again — but it’s been funded privately, through philanthropy and investments.
Luckily for researchers like Johnson, that seems to finally be changing. The grant that he and his fellow researchers received came specifically from a pool of money allocated by NIDA — the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which exists under the National Institutes of Health — for novel treatments for substance use.
There’s been some movement in Congress, too. Melissa Lavasani, Founder and Executive Director of Plant Medicine Coalition, a women-led, non-profit advocacy organization working on psychedelic reform at the federal level, made it one of her primary goals this year to get $100 million approved in federal funding specifically for studying psychedelics. Federal funding, she believes, is underrated as one of the most important components to furthering the psychedelic movement.
One challenge, however, is that actually getting a grant from the federal government can be incredibly difficult, even when the funding is there. The grants themselves are often hundreds of pages long. “You have to be very competent, very intelligent, you have to have a track record in research,” says Jeffrey Becker, Co-Founder of Bexson Biomedical, a company developing a unique formulation of ketamine for chronic and acute pain disorders.
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