Didn't see this thread until today. Interesting article and discussion.

For sure I didn't expect psychedelic therapy to work any differently from everything else in this world. Unfortunately this thing won't change until our whole culture changes.

I think that the majority of researchers who work with psychedelics has never taken them, so in their mindset they're not different from other potential pharmaceutical drugs. Research in the last few years has been exploring psychedelic analogs that can have the same therapeutic effects without being psychoactive, and to me this looks like the final step towards the medicalization of psychedelics.

Of course I'm sad about this, but since we're on this path I think about the fact that maybe in the future psychedelics or their analogs will become just like regular drugs and many people will be able to take them without having to prepare for the experience.

This will strip them of much of their transformative potential, but at least we could have more effective medicines for people who suffer. It's still better than how it is now in my opinion.