The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (UMSOP) is at the forefront of research and recommendations around natural psychedelic substances for both therapeutic and personal use.
Andrew Coop, PhD, professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and associate dean for students at UMSOP, has spent the last year as chair of the State of Maryland’s Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances, which focused on the use of psilocybin/psilocin (derived from “magic mushrooms”), mescaline (derived from cacti), and dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which is often used in ayahuasca.
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