I'm not inclined to trust the Psychedelic Times to be particularly neutral on the topic or scientific.
The yellow words are hyperlinks. Many of them go to outside websites.
It can be done in the US with proper licensing, "just" if you get the funds from elsewhere. Not a small hurdle by any means, but it's not like you'll be blackballed (you can see plenty of studies of schedule 1 substances on PubMed, which is run by the US government).