I'm new to learning about psychedelics as a therapeutic treatment. I know one researcher studying psychedelic's impact on the neuroscience of trauma. They received a small grant from the National Institute of Mental Health but a lot of the money for the study they fundraised themselves.
It seems like the big organizations like the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health aren't as willing to fund these types of studies.
How can that be changed? Does that change with decriminalization/legalization or is there another way to affect that change?
I feel like the more research there is the more likely psychedelics are to be decriminalized/legalized but perhaps they need to be decriminalized/legalized before there is money and researchers available to do those studies.
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I'm new to learning about psychedelics as a therapeutic treatment. I know one researcher studying psychedelic's impact on the neuroscience of trauma. They received a small grant from the National Institute of Mental Health but a lot of the money for the study they fundraised themselves.
It seems like the big organizations like the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health aren't as willing to fund these types of studies.
How can that be changed? Does that change with decriminalization/legalization or is there another way to affect that change?
I feel like the more research there is the more likely psychedelics are to be decriminalized/legalized but perhaps they need to be decriminalized/legalized before there is money and researchers available to do those studies.
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