50 years too late. Of course, 50+ years ago, it was the hippies doing the experimentation. As The Man hated the hippies and the youth culture of the time, they instituted these draconian drug laws we've lived under since making it impossible to determine whether drugs like LSD or psilocybin or cannabis might have beneficial therapeutic effects.
Meh... 50 years ago psychedelics were overplayed and used in inappropriate settings. Not surprising the backlash. It looks like this time around the experiments are much more controlled and looking to get hard data rather than just "turn on, tune in, drop out".
At the same time the people who did take it seriously were also unfairly discredited. There was a legitimate theory of the psychedelic state as a "model psychosis" which was simply rejected during the anti-drug hysteria which followed.
The government (CIA) also used psychedelics in all kinds of horrible, torturous ways with their experiments.