Psilocybin and Animal Testing: Charting an End to the Use of Animals in Drug Development Research
SSRN Electronic Journal 2026 Amanda Elyse
Psilocybin is the primary psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms”; it has been used by humans for millennia, it is in promising clinical trials with humans and used in legalized psilocybin-assisted therapy, and researchers use and are further developing human-based methods with cutting-edge technologies. However, researchers are still allowed to conduct unreliable and distressing psilocybin...