Roland Griffiths, and his legacy

No one person has led the so-called psychedelic renaissance. Many have played vital roles: Rick Doblin of the <a href="https://maps.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies</a>, best-selling author <a href="https://michaelpollan.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Pollan</a>, philanthropist and podcaster <a href="https://tim.blog/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Tim Ferriss</a> and <a href="https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/jesse" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Bob Jesse</a>, an influential behind-the-scenes networker, among others. But none has done more to bring psychedelics to the mainstream than <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/roland-griffiths" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Roland Griffiths</a>, the founding director of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University, the leading center for the scientific investigation of psychedelics. This is an opportune moment to recognize Griffiths’ influence, as his career winds down. He’s 76 years old. He has Stage IV colon cancer. His prognosis is grim. But Griffiths is not fading into the background: Instead, he is sharing the experience of facing his mortality and seeking to establish a program at Johns Hopkins to carry on his explorations of psychedelics, spirituality and well-being. <a href="https://medium.com/the-psychedelic-renaissance/roland-griffiths-and-his-legacy-4a1610c49604">Website</a>