SXSW 2025

Behind the Scenes of the "Psychedelic Renaissance"

Description:

While most psychedelics are still illegal—though this may change soon—they’ve re-entered the mainstream to an almost unimaginable degree. Perhaps you’ve heard dinner party stories of an ayahuasca retreat, seen new neighborhood ketamine clinics, or learned about parents microdosing mushrooms. How did we get here? Join four insiders as they share a ‘state of the union’: an opinionated retrospective from five years of working in and reporting on the broad church that is the psychedelics field. They’ll touch on the biggest events in science, industry, commercialization, culture, policy, and more.


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Takeaways

  1. Familiarize yourself with the key milestones achieved across psychedelic science, policy, business, and perceptions over the past half-decade
  2. Appreciate the most salient fault lines and unsettled debates within the psychedelics field, and how they have evolved over this period
  3. Engage with a critical view of the developments of a psychedelic industry that doesn’t come from a prohibitionist standpoint

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Organizer

Graham Pechenik, Founder & Registered Patent Attorney, Calyx Law


Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Panel
  • Track: Psychedelics
  • Track 2
  • Level: Intermediate


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