Stan was forty-two years old when we met and he began participating in the DMT studies. His wife of fourteen years was a respiratory therapist who worked with many medical patients at the Research Center. She thought he’d be interested in the project, and he gave me a call. He was one of the most experienced psychedelic drug users of anyone in our studies, having taken LSD “over four hundred times.” “They don’t call it ‘acid’ for nothing,” he laughed during our first meeting. He took LSD or mushrooms every few months, using them with several close friends with whom he shared a strong belief in
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