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Pollan actually does go on the black market (still probably $200/hour though). You can't legally get a psychedelic trip guide in the US right now. The point is

Pollan actually does go on the black market (still probably $200/hour though). You can't legally get a psychedelic trip guide in the US right now. The point is that the exact people who are well-known and respected as black-market guides would become therapists in a world where such a profession were legal!

jrochkind1 7y ago
> You can't legally get a psychedelic trip guide in the US right now. Not entirely true, although only a few, there have been and continue to be legal studies involving psilocybin (also MDMA) in addition to the one in the OP. Here is a smoking cessation study in Baltimore, involving a psilocybin psychedelic trip. https://www.quitsmokingbaltimore.org/ https://www.quitsmokingbaltimore.org/ Here's an article about the findings of the 2014 pilot study on the same thing which describes the methodology to some extent. https://hub.jhu.edu/2014/09/11/magic-mushrooms-smoking/ https://hub.jhu.edu/2014/09/11/magic-mushrooms-smoking/