Studies are currently coming to a close on forms of psychedelics, and the findings that have thus far been published have gone a long way to the understanding of the medicinal uses of these drugs for patients suffering from mental disorders caused by stress, like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. But again, these studies are not funded by the government as they should be. Government funding includes many medical research projects, but the second a street drug is involved in the research the government shuts their doors and pretends that no such thing could possibly ever be useful information. Studies like this are not state-funded, but merely state-tolerated.

The reasoning behind these studies isn’t just to see medicinal properties of the drugs, but also to measure as quantitatively as possible the effect that the drugs can have on a person’s behavior, emotion, and thought processes, and for medical practitioners to hopefully be able to build a successful treatment plan that will benefit the patient in every way possible. The underlying theme is that by studying not only the drug but the effects it has on a person’s brain at a chemical level we can also learn and ideally begin to treat those suffering from psychological illnesses that until now were considered untreatable. So hopefully someday – those people that we have locked away in the back cages of mental institutions with a labeling of clinically insane will be able to function and enter normal human society again. That those who have lost loved ones to mental illness may not have to do so for the rest of their lives, and could one day share a meal or drink with said loved one without being surrounded by white linoleum and barred windows.