Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

https://vimeo.com/332560919

my idea of justice doesnt include non-violent academics serving life sentences for manufacturing psychedelics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard

> Pickard was the first American researcher to predict an epidemic of fentanyl and carfentanyl. At Harvard, he was appointed as a research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where he was a drug policy fellow in the ad hoc Harvard Initiative on Drugs and Addictions, under the Program in Mind, Brain and Behavior.[6] In a presentation at the Harvard Faculty Club in 1996, Pickard proposed that fentanyl and carfentanyl use would become epidemic, and suggested specific policies for preventing wide-spread abuse. Pickard's prediction was 20 years in advance of the 2018 opioid crisis.[6]

> In federal court on March 12-13, 2003, Pickard testified in detail on this prediction, based upon his research among more than 200 addicts in Boston and Moscow and his study of rare fentanyl use. Original overheads from the Harvard Faculty Club presentation were seized by DEA in a Boston locker in November, 2000, and retained by the agency until trial in 2003, where they were entered as defense exhibits. This testimony, as a public record, was more than 15 years before the actual epidemic occurred.[7]

Given that the man is currently imprisoned because he manufactured substances that the government deemed the harmful to specify because of their potential for abuse, it's hard not to conclude that either he is a hypocrite or the people who imprisoned him are.