
began its rise in the 1950s, slowly gaining speed before peaking in the late ’60s and early ’70s, when funding began to dry up in the wake of the politicization and cultural stigmatization of psychedelics.

After President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs and signed the Controlled Substances Act in 1971, Doblin - a self-proclaimed “old hippie from the ’60s” - dedicated his life to the goal of bringing psychedelic research and therapies back to the forefront of Western psychiatry. Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). “We are in a psychedelic renaissance, and not just in the United States, but around the world,” says Dr. SEAL veteran Cory Poolman and former Army Ranger Hal wait for a welcome ceremony to begin in the Bwiti temple at the Iboga Retreat Center in Gabon.
