Make Room for 'Shrooms | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Make Room for ‘Shrooms | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
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Make Room for ‘Shrooms | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
At Harvard, Psychedelic Drugs' Tentative Renaissance | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, launched a new center to study the clinical benefits of psychedelics in treating mental illness. The Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics comes amid a statewide push for psychedelic decriminalization, including acts passed in Cambridge and Somerville that specifically cite the possible medical benefits of substances like psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms.” One of the Center’s first studies, to begin this spring, will examine psilocybin’s efficacy in mitigating rumination, a common featur...