Psychoactive substance research gets a spotlight at this year’s festival
Picture yourself in a boat on a river. It’s the Lower Colorado River winding its watery way through Austin, Texas. And when you leave that boat and venture anywhere Downtown in the next week or so, you’re going to run smack into the annual meatspace kaleidoscope of culture and commerce, art and advertising, hope and hype that the world knows as South by Southwest.
SXSW 2024 boasts an impressive three-day track of programming about the use of mind-altering substances in medicine, for various forms of therapy, as gambits of recreation, and as another consumer product to be leveraged with sweet capitalistic fervor.
Psychedelics for research, for healing, for recreation, for profit: Their time has come, and they’ll be well covered at SXSW this year – with or without tangerine trees and marshmallow skies.SXSW Panels Explore What’s Next for Sustainable FoodAn Allergy-Friendly Guide to Eating at South by SouthwestBehind Two of SXSW Music’s Biggest Free LineupsTells the Story of a Criminal Justice Crusade in AustinExperts at SXSW Debate if AI Will Save Us ...
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