
Legal History of Psychedelics
In the 1950s and early 1960s, over 1,000 scientific papers were written about LSD, an exciting phenomenon new to Western medicine that offered an unprecedented window into brain function and revolutionary potential in mental health care. By 1970, the status of LSD and other psychedelics had changed dramatically; they were branded a menace to society and were included in Schedule I of the new federal Controlled Substances Act, the category for substances with no currently accepted medical use. Almost 50 years later,[…]