Amanda Feilding may be an eccentric British aristocrat. But she deserves full credit for funding significant research into psychedelics long before it was either cool or respectable.
Marijuana legalization in California saw the market dominated by corporations and bureaucracy. New York State’s focus on equity offers the possibility of another way.
Research on psychedelics, then and now, has been riddled with medical racism and exclusion. But that hasn’t stopped Black people from finding creativity and solace through such drugs.