Baltimore is known to many as the heroin capital of the US. If William Richards has anything to do with it, it may also become the nation’s most psychedelic city. For the past 15 years, a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine program co-founded by Richards has dosed hundreds if not thousands of people with a variety of psychedelic drugs. Richards, who specializes in the psychology of religion, sees the “sacred molecules” in such chemicals…
Baltimore psychologist pioneers team using psychedelics as ‘sacred’ medicine
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