Johns Hopkins University Expert Promotes Larger Doses of Psilocybin as "Heroic"
Johns Hopkins promotes the recreational use of psilocybin with an outlandish video featuring "one of the world’s most widely published experts on psychedelics" whom they created.
Psilocybin or magic mushrooms grow in naturalistic settings where they are easily identifiable and can be harvested in abundance and consumed with a low probability of arrest.
An 11-minute video about psilocybin accessed through the industry-supported Big Think was viewed over 12 million times and drew over 12,000 comments from enthusiastic users of the currently illicit drug.
Johns Hopkins University is part of an industry-academic partnership that would enforce a monopoly on the consumption of psilocybin under medical supervision, not decriminalization.
Current users would face possible criminal charges under this arrangement if used without the supervision of a multidisciplinary staff that investors are training and licensing, giving the investors a new income stream.
The video features Dr. Matthew Johnson who is identified as a Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and “one of the world’s most widely published experts on psychedelics.”
Dr. Johnson has a Ph.D. in psychology and i…