Publications

Psilocybin Outside the Clinic: Public Health Challenges of Increasing Publicity, Accessibility, and Use
This review synthesizes emerging data on psilocybin use trends, product variability, co-use with other substances, and adverse event reports. It highlights parallels with the cannabis legalization trajectory, showing that potency, product diversity, and unsupervised use are increasing while regulation and public education lag behind.

Preliminary validation and refinement of the psychedelic aesthetic experience questionnaire
This study refines and validates the Psychedelic Aesthetic Experience Questionnaire, a tool designed to measure the aesthetic qualities of psychedelic experiences.

Neuroaesthetics of the psychedelic state
This paper outlines neural mechanisms underlying the aesthetic experience during psychedelic states and calls for direct research.

Aesthetic quality of psychedelic experience is linked to insight and psychological outcomes
This study links the aesthetic quality of retrospective self-reported psychedelic experiences to measures of perceived insight and psychological outcomes.

A preliminary randomized trial of the safety, tolerability, and clinical effects of hemp-derived cannabidiol in alcohol use disorder
This randomized pilot trial evaluates the safety, tolerability and clinical effects of hemp-derived cannabidiol in individuals with alcohol use disorder.
