Graveyard Shift

by M.L. Rio

“mesearch” into different forms of psychedelic therapy. “I’m still my own guinea pig, sometimes, sure. In science and medicine we like to pretend it’s all very impersonal, but the truth is it’s rare you find anyone with a purely academic interest in this stuff. You get interested because it’s personal, and once you turn it into a profession, you have to pretend it isn’t personal anymore. That never felt right to me. Who better to do the work than someone with a vested interest in the outcome?” She laughed off the interviewer’s next question about administrative red tape. “Well, to be an innovator, you have to be a bit of an iconoclast, I suppose. Galileo died on house arrest for suggesting that the earth revolved around the sun, which went against the holy rule of Rome.”