So what does all this mean for our future? That at some point psychedelics would be a prescribed drug. You would go to a medical practitioner and receive a prescription for the use of a psychedelic drug as part of your treatment for a psychological illness. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Well according to science and recent research this is most likely going to be a huge benefit to our future. The downside of course would be that the employers would now be able to draw up new Drug Testing Policies. Currently despite prescriptions an employer still has the right to refuse employment to a person based on the results of their drug test, despite the person having a legal prescription for the use of that substance.

Despite all the research into the potential for psychedelics as medicine the truth of the matter is that our current government and those before it are unwilling to make what they feel would be the unpopular decision of either legalizing medical research so that a researcher doesn’t have to jump through hoops made of thick red tape in order to have a study sanctioned and funded. Drug testing is so prevalent in America at this time that making these drugs legal, or even simply legal to study would put too many employers into uncomfortable positions. Just because you have a prescription doesn’t mean they can accept that you’re taking something. And currently the law is not on your side.