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Jul 2020
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21. Drugs and consciousness with Profess...

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After a few decades of psychedelic research censorship, Professor Roland Griffiths broke the mould and bravely researched a topic that he himself was sceptical about. What he found…would begin the psychedelic renaissance. 
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