Show 1188: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Drugs

Published: Nov. 8, 2019, 2:15 a.m.

b'Many indigenous peoples around the world have developed traditional uses for psychedelic compounds. In Western medicine, these were mostly unknown until Albert Hoffmann synthesized LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) in 1938. He later tried to figure out how it might be used after having an extraordinary personal experience. By the mid to late 1960s, psychedelic drugs [\\u2026]'