Is psychedelic use associated with cancer?: Interrogating a half-century-old claim using contemporary population-level data
Journal of Psychopharmacology August 16, 2022 Brian S. Barnett, Kathleen M Ziegler, Rick Doblin et al. 15 citations
BACKGROUND: In 1967, concerns about the carcinogenic potential of psychedelics arose after a study reported chromosomal damage in human leukocytes following in vitro lysergic acid (LSD) exposure. Worries were further heightened by subsequent reports of leukemia and other cancers in LSD users. Additional investigations of psychedelics' effects on chromosomes were published over the next decade,...