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SXSW Dispatch: Psychedelic Medicine Needs to Get Profit Focused.

SXSW Dispatch: Psychedelic Medicine Needs to Get Profit Focused.

Less Profitable = Bait for Profiteers

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Owen Scott Muir, M.D, DFAACAP
Mar 10, 2023
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Psychedelics are remarkable experiences, I get it. They could transform everything! New perspectives! It’s something the establishment isn’t going to like, with conservative haters like this:

‘I'm not going anywhere near that ship. And I think you should stay away from it, too, Frank.’

Ok, that was actually Timothy Leary before he did too many drugs.

Later, he ruined decades of medical progress that could have been with reckless messaging:

it could give women “several hundred orgasms”, he claimed – and something children could enjoy dealt… life-changing

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