The Challenges of Psychedelic Research

Manuel Brenner
The Startup
Published in
8 min readSep 19, 2019
Photo by Lucas Benjamin on Unsplash

Psychedelic substances are, to put it mildly, a controversial subject. Most of them are as of yet Schedule 1 Drugs in the US, so it is assumed that

  • The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
  • The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical treatment use in the U.S.
  • It has a lack of accepted safety for use under…

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