Harvard University will create a Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture backed by a $16 million gift from a former Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) employee, recalling Elon Musk’s consistent praise for psychedelics, and Valor Equity Partners CEO, Antonio Gracias provided through his Family Foundation.
The new program, which comes some 60 years after Harvard prof Timothy Leary’s profuse endorsement of psychedelics, is born from an interdisciplinary effort between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School.
It aims to “transform the psychedelics research landscape by producing cutting-edge scholarship and convening faculty, students and experts to engage in discussion around their far-reaching implications.”
The program will approach the psychedelics field from a range of humanistic and social scientific viewpoints ...