The New Science of Psychedelics: A Tool for Changing Our Minds

By Vanessa Bates Ramirez – Mar 31, 2019   As our prosperity rises, our mental health is on the decline—and fast. Rates of depression, anxiety, suicide, addiction, and other psychological disorders have skyrocketed in recent years, and nobody knows what to do about it. Enter psychedelics: LSD, magic mushrooms, mescaline, ayahuasca—drugs you’d expect to find at a rave …