BELMONT, Mass. (JTA) — When Rick Doblin was in his early 20s, he had a dream in which he was escorted back in time to witness a Holocaust survivor’s narrow escape from the Nazis. In his mind, Doblin ...

From Silicon Valley to Hollywood, Californians lead the world with big ideas. For the latest installment of our "Big Think" series, we meet Rick Doblin. He heads a nonprofit that sponsors research ...

When psychedelic drugs finally become legal in the United States and elsewhere around the world, the lion's share of the credit will go to Rick Doblin. Since founding the Multidisciplinary Association ...

In 1982, a young psychedelic researcher studying at the New College in Florida embarked upon a month long workshop with the godfather of psychedelic medical research Stanislav Grof at the legendary ...

Rick Doblin founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in 1986, as a “non-profit research and educational organization that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Rick Doblin When Rick Doblin, 70, was in his 20s, he had a dream that changed not only his life, but also—in a roundabout way—the trajectory of U.S. public health.

One evening last August, Rick Doblin pedaled a borrowed bicycle across the baked earth playa of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, site of the annual Burning Man festival. Doblin, who’s 65 and has graying, ...

Meghana Keshavan covers biotech and contributes to The Readout newsletter. It’s been a hard week for the psychedelics pioneer Rick Doblin. First, the Food and Drug Administration declined to approve ...

2070. That’s the year that psychedelic researcher Rick Doblin speculates (and hopes) that psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapies will have penetrated mainstream culture enough to create a ...