candidates to worldviews and how increasingly the stark differences between them over core american principles truly are different from any other presidential rates, keeping them honest also tonight, new figures detailing just how many millions dollars in gifts supreme court justices have received over the years. and which serving justice raked in most of it later in the wake of an fda panel rejecting the use of mdma ecstasy to treat post-traumatic stress. my 60 minutes reporting on research into psychedelics in treating serious mental illness. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight. keep them honest with a matter of fact, not opinion know about the democratic republican candidates for president. whatever else you might think of them and whoever you plan on voting for november president biden and former president trump, see the world is differently one from another as any to modern-day candidates have what s more, there are differences are not trivial. they
Without patient s knowledge fear over ramp and drug use and the spread of the counterculture movement. not to mention harvard professor timothy liri, urging people to turn on, tune in and drop out lead to a clamp down. this nation faces a major crisis in terms of the increasing use of drugs, particularly among our young people. in 1970, president richard nixon sayyed the controlled substances act nearly all scientific research in the us into the effects of psychedelics on people stopped. it wasn t until 2000. it s scientists, roland griffiths, one fda approval to study psilocybin this whole area of research has been in the deep freeze for 25 or 30 years. and so as a scientist, sometimes i feel like rip van winkle. once you saw results, yeah, that red lights start flashing. this is extraordinarily interesting. it s unprecedented and the capacity of the human organism to change. it just was astounding.