Rick Doblin at MAPS has said he&#x27;s funding the medical research of psychedelics and MDMA partly to change their public perception. It&#x27;s a good strategy. &quot;Medicinal alcohol&quot; during Prohibition and medicinal cannabis during Prohibition 2.0 both helped sway a skeptical public.<p>Strategic concerns aside, psychedelics clearly are powerful medicines and can yield profound insights, and their relative safety makes their Schedule 1 status morally repellent.