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How the United States embraced psychedelics
After half-a-century of prohibition, the United States is about to legalize psilocybin and MDMA for clinical use, to treat people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or terminal cancer. Scientists, patients, clandestine therapists and war veterans speak with EL PAÍS about the bright spots and shadows of this rebirth