Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. S…

- Rick Doblin

Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of everyday exper…

- Rick Doblin

It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures all over the wo…

- Rick Doblin

People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched f…

- Rick Doblin

The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first s…

- Rick Doblin

Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance…

- Rick Doblin

The government has a monopoly on the supply of marijuana that you can use in FDA-approved research. So even though there are 20 states and the Distri…

- Rick Doblin

We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who…

- Rick Doblin