Diversity, deal-making and drowning rats

Notes from a conference on psychedelic medicines

Marc Gunther
The Psychedelic Renaissance
4 min readMay 25, 2022

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“psychedelic-boom” by burningmax is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

At this week’s Psychedelic Therapeutics and Drug Development Conference, the vast majority of the speakers were white. The vast majority of the audience was white. The vast majority of people who have participated in clinical trials of psychedelic medicines that were discussed at the conference? Yes, they were…

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Marc Gunther
The Psychedelic Renaissance

Reporting on psychedelics, tobacco, philanthropy, animal welfare, etc. Ex-Fortune. Words in The Guardian, NYTimes, WPost, Vox. Baseball fan. Runner.