LSD May Lead to a New Kind of Medicine

Studies have shown that psychedelics have huge potential for treating a variety of mental illnesses. There's just one problem: the side effects aren't exactly subtle. So University of North Carolina researcher Bryan Roth has developed new molecules that could have the same effect without the trip.

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