Dr. Keith Humphreys

Or afterwards, like flashbacks, you know, you're driving along and then you have a flashback, you know, and that is both upsetting, depending what you're doing at the time, you know, could carry some risk to it.

We don't know that well how well these... exactly how these drugs work, you know, the sort of serotonergy.

The one thing we do know good though, keeping on the topic of addiction is thankfully, you know, there's no evidence that people get addicted to psilocybin or to LSD if they have abuse potential, it's extremely, extremely slight.

So I've always worried about them far less as a class of drugs than I do things like stimulants, which I know and alcohol.

As with stimulants.

As with stimulants, right.

It's hard.

Well, there is in Oregon.

That's actually what Todd was presenting at, which is, yeah, because it is legal.

Oakland's very different.

In Oregon, you actually are licensed by the state to do this.

Ah.

So that's what we'll find out.

I mean, to me, this is like pretty, probably this is a case where it's easy to be a scientist.

Sometimes it's annoying to be a scientist, makes life harder, makes it easier.

It's like, I don't know if this works.

It's really important to figure out if it works.

We have really good methods to do that.

So let's spend the dollars to get good people to do those studies.

This is the night of you, you know, National Institute on Drug, they are funding quite a few studies, you know, of this sort.