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The Molecule That Should Have Been a Medicine - Then Vanished

The Molecule That Should Have Been a Medicine - Then Vanished

A molecule tested at Johns Hopkins showed no open‑eyed hallucinations across three published trials, yet it was scheduled as a controlled substance before the final paper appeared - how did a compound that seemed safer than other psychedelics disappear from development? This episode traces the unlikely arc from a Dow chemist’s laboratory to the streets of San Francisco and asks: which decisions - legal, personal, or accidental - truly ended this drug's future?

In this episode, we lay out the chronological facts behind the…

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