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Rachel Martin

He helped cancer patients find peace through psychedelics. Then came his diagnosis

Roland Griffiths' research showed how psychedelics can alleviate depression in people with terminal diseases. (Andre Chung/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Imagine for a moment that everything you built your professional life around – things that motivated you and inspired you and defined you – started to feel irrelevant? Like it no longer fit with who you wanted to be in the world.

Maybe you don't have to imagine it. I don't have to. After 20 years covering news with a capital "N", I found myself craving a different kind of internal exploration: about the human condition, which is what this series is all about.

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