This is exactly what happened to LSD, which was a very promising research chemical when it was first introduced.  Over a thousand research studies were done on it before research on it was effectively banned due to the public&#x27;s fear and outrage over sensationalistic news stories of its non-medical use.<p>It took about 40 years for psychedlic research to start up again, and even now the handful of studies that make up the &quot;psychedelic renaissance&quot; are almost all on compounds other than LSD, because of the stigma LSD still has attached to it.