A van full of U.S. Special Operations veterans crossed the border into Mexico on a sunny day in July to execute a mission that, even to them, sounded pretty far out. They planned to swallow a psychedelic extract from the bark of a West African shrub and then have their consciousness shattered by smoking the poison of a desert toad. The objective was to find relief from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury symptoms.
I don't know if this will work, Jason said of psychedelic therapy. But at this point, I have nothing to lose. A long combat career exposed to weapons blasts had left him struggling with depression and anger, a frayed memory and addled concentration. He was on the verge of divorce and had recently put a gun to his head.
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