Australia should be initiating a psychedelic research program : What are the barriers ? Nigel Strauss, Stephen J Bright and Martin L Williams Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2016, Vol. 50, (11), 1036–1037 DOI: 10.1177/0004867416670520   A recent review in Pharmacological Reviews highlights that over the last decade, a renaissance has occurred in psychedelic drug research in North America and Europe as investigators at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), New York University and Imperial College London have embarked on studies that could be paradigm-changing for psychiatry (Nichols, 2016). These developments overturn a 30-year embargo on psychedelic research [...]