UCSF Launches Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program

This is great, but what I'm really looking forward to is research into psychedelics with techniques/practices to boost mental health even in non-DSM-diagnosed a.k.a healthy individuals.

I love that the acronym is tripper.

Hope their studies are reproducible, I'm getting a little tired of psychnews that make headline, only to learn it was just garbage.

What makes you call previous studies garbage? Haven't psychedelics actually helped people with, say, PTSD, in those previous studies?

Reproduction is likely to always be an issue with psychedelics research, since people's responses are so variable. Any research would need to have unethically large numbers of subjects. Perhaps legalisation would change that, but the legalisation will always be dicey without reliable research. An ouroboros of an issue.

> ... unethically large ...

Do you wanna expand on this one? I can probably make some assumptions about what you meant, but they're all have obvious solutions so I'm left without a reasonable interpretation.

Drugs are dangerous?

even pharmaceuticals?