Roland Griffiths, Pioneer of Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Studies Dead at 77 hightimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hightimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pioneering Psychedelic Researcher Roland Griffiths Passes Away miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A distinguished psychopharmacologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Roland Griffiths spent decades studying the mechanisms of dependence on mood-altering drugs.
The drugs had been the third rail of scientific inquiry. But in a landmark study, he saw them as a legitimate way to help alleviate suffering and even to reach a mystical state.