Historical Stigma

Pollan, Michael. “Michael Pollan on the Healing Power of Psychedelics.”

YouTube, Uploaded by Time, 18 May 2018. https://youtu.be/LBOcWgMD49o.

Lowe, Henry, et al. “The Therapeutic Potential of Psilocybin.” Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), vol. 26, no. 10, 2021, p. 2948–, https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26102948.

Both of these sources speak of the historical stigma surrounding psilocybin and psychedelics all throughout history. They both speak of the Counter culture in the 60s contributing to the stigma. A specific story they speak of was professor Timothy Leary who told everyone to take psychedelics, and this added to the stigma. This stigma that is spoken of inhibited medical research of psychedelics as addiction treatment to to the association with a group of people and era that people looked down upon. But only after these aspects were able to be weened out of the public eye, were psychedelics able to be seriously considered as valid treatment for addiction.;