Diffusion of Innovations

 Psychedelics in the United States: 

    Psychedelics have existed for a very long time, before humans even, but it was only about 60 years ago that people started taking a serious scientific approach to psychedelics. The pionners were scientists who were trying to understand how these drugs work and what their purpose was. Albert Hoffman started discovering LSD in 1943 through a series of trials that he conducted on himself and on animals, the years after that are known to be the most important decades in psychedelic research since a very large amount of experiments and statistics were conducted by other researchers all over the world, especially America, testing was happening all over the place which pushed the early adaptors to take interest in the subject, these people were research psychologist who were trying to incorporate psychedelics to their field in order to cure mental issues like depression, PTSD and bipolar disorder. Another large amount of research and testing was done and showed very promising results, psychedelics were in fact able to cure some mental illnesses. 

Not too long after that the early majority joined the movement and these were people who realized that a lot of money can be made from these drugs and it was time to start selling them to the late majority which is the general public, psychedelics could be found all over the United States in the 50s, 60s and were easy to get. But that didn't last long after president Nixon started the war on drugs in 1970 and made all psychedelics illegal. This was a big step back since all research had to be terminated and there was not much discovered about these complex drugs after that. It took about 30 years for psychedelic research to come back to the United States and today there are more experiment getting conducted then ever before and a promising future where drugs are researched and studied.