Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the FDA whom they called on to study the therapeutic potential of psychedelics.
According to the senators, the U.S. has already undertaken a significant amount of research on psychedelics, citing that between 1960 and 1965, studies on LSD and other psychedelics generated over 1,000 scientific papers. But since then, federal prohibition has stymied progress in our understanding of the substances.
