Healing trip: how psychedelic drugs could help treat depression

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David Derbyshire – The Observer,

The research carried out as part of the Beckley Foundation/Imperial College Psychopharmacological Research Programme, of which David Nutt and Amanda Feilding are co-directors, has positive publicity in the Observer: Drugs Uncovered – The Truth about LSD.
In this article David Derbyshire from the Guardian interviews David Nutt, Amanda Feilding and Robin Carhart Harris about their groundbreaking research on LSD.

“The revival of academic research into “recreational” drugs is being driven by the Imperial scientists working with the Beckley Foundation, a charity run by Amanda Feilding. Her foundation supports and initiates research into psychoactive substances – including LSD, magic mushrooms and cannabis, a plant used in medicine for thousands of years.”

The full article is also available from here.