Jets QB Aaron Rodgers described taking ayahuasca with his teammates as 'radically life-changing,' at a psychedelics conference in Denver.
The conference, put on by a psychedelic advocacy group, took place months after Colorado's voters decided to join Oregon in decriminalizing psychedelic mushrooms. While it's a sign of growing cultural acceptance for substances that proponents say may offer benefits for things like post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism, medical experts caution that more research is needed on the drugs' efficacy and the extent of the risks of psychedelics, which can cause hallucinations.
The organization hosting the conference, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, is the largest U.S. advocacy group. It has strategized to reach the full political spectrum, said Nicolas Langlitz, a historian of science who's researched the boom and bust of psychedelic movements. Psychedelics are illegal at the federal level, though acceptance and interest in studying their potential benefits has grown. For example, some researchers believe psilocybin, the compound in psychedelic mushrooms, changes the way the brain organizes itself and can help users overcome things like depression and alcoholism.
Public interest also appears to be growing. Just six years ago in Oakland, California, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies held a conference with roughly 3,000 attendees and a smattering of lesser-known speakers and die-hard proponents. Doblin said taking MDMA should happen"only under the direct supervision of a therapist, it's never a take-home medicine." He also emphasized what many speakers echoed during the first day about psychedelics being paired with mental health professional:"The treatment is not the drug, it's the therapy that the drug makes more effective."
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