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    He helped cancer patients find peace through psychedelics. Then came his diagnosis

    Roland Griffiths is known as the scientist who helped prove that psychedelics can alleviate depression and mental anguish in cancer patients. That pursuit has since become a lot more personal.
    by Rachel Martin May 14, 2023 4 minutes
    Roland Griffiths' research showed how psychedelics can alleviate depression in people with terminal diseases.

    Imagine for a moment that everything you built your professional life around – things that motivated you and inspired you and defined you – started to feel irrelevant? Like it no longer fit with who you wanted to be in the world.

    Maybe you don't have to imagine it. I don't have to. After 20 years covering news with a capital "N", I found myself craving a different kind of internal exploration: about the human condition, which is what this series is all about.

    The same thing happened to Dr. Roland Griffiths. Today he is known as the scientist who helped prove that psychedelics, specifically a drug called , can alleviate depression and mental anguish in cancer patients and others facing terminal diseases. Before that, his

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