Psychedelic drugs could be used to treat two common health problems, the Government’s former chief drugs adviser claims. Magic mushrooms and LSD could be cure to treat alcoholism and depression and in fact were used as treatments, before being banned around 50 years ago.
Prof David Nutt, a neuropharmacologist at Imperial College London said the substances could be a powerful tool to tackle mental health conditions.
The professor is part of a group of scientists, who believe psychedelics could treat alcoholism and are are calling on the regulators to “revisit drugs that were once used but fell out of use because of political machinations, especially the war on drugs”.