The high-stakes race to engineer new psychedelic drugs

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions  08.07.22 The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs As psychedelic therapies for mental health go mainstream, companies are recruiting chemists to create patentable versions of hallucinogens. Critics say it's all a bad trip. BY JOHN SEMLEY | 14-MINUTE READ It's never been easy to be a chemist with a passion for tinkering with psychedelic drugs. You're always looking over your shoulder, should the Feds come knocking at your door. Plus, there wasn't any money in all this tinkering—the US government had rendered most psychedelics illegal in 1970, writes John Semley. "Such research had typically been the domain of so-called clandestine chemists, who worked in backyard sheds and underground bunkers, mass-producing trippy new compounds while evading law enforcement." But what if psychedelics could be reengineered? What if they could be made synthetically, with the same trippy properties, but all-new chemical compounds? Chemist Jason Wallach, of the Discovery Center at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, has made it his mission to "fine-tune" the psychedelic experience using synthetic drugs—and then replicate them for patents and profits. He's backed by Compass Pathways, a UK biotech firm that's staking its claim on using these synthetic psychedelics in mental health therapy. The healing properties of the psychedelic trip is a gamble, but there's big money on the other side. "In 2020 the fledgling psychedelic industry was predicted to balloon to $6.9 billion by 2027," writes Semley. "A year later, that estimate increased to over $10 billion." Michelle Legro | Deputy Editor, Features Protest Hides in Plain Sight in Hong Kong BY JERRINE TAN | 9-MINUTE READ Twenty-five years after the UK handed the city over to China, Hong Kong's suppressed and surveilled people keep freedom alive creatively and furtively. Forget Disruption. Tech Needs to Fetishize Stability BY PAUL FORD | 4-MINUTE READ Breaking things is an ethos for the bored, for people who live in reasonable climates and don't have tanks in the street. That isn't us anymore. VR Still Stinks Because It Doesn't Smell BY JUDE STEWART | 6-MINUTE READ Scent is the realest sense. For virtual reality to feel truly immersive, it needs to start stinking it up. After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance BY CLIVE THOMPSON | 4-MINUTE READ My rooftop panels showed me that a world powered by renewables would be an overflowing horn of plenty, with fast, sporty cars and comfy homes. Against 'Public Health' BY ELEANOR CUMMINS | 5-MINUTE READ Everything is supposedly a "public health" issue in the US, but this buzzword does little to address real challenges. GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. Includes the print edition plus editor in chief Gideon Lichfield's column, System Update. Subscribe now. Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions

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