Roland Griffiths is a self-defined skeptic—but he'll entertain the fanciful. He first dabbled in meditation as a graduate student, and though talk of "heart chakras" left him dubious, he used the ...

The conversation on psychedelics has made its way to Oprah Winfrey’s daily show, where the beloved host invited Dr. Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., to talk about a topic that, in her words, “so many people ...

(RNS) — Last June in Denver, at a convention of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Roland Griffiths stood onstage in the largest ballroom in the cavernous Colorado Convention ...

Over his half-century career at the Johns Hopkins University, Roland Griffiths has published hundreds of papers, most of them having to do with the downsides of drugs, attempts to understand the ...

Roland Griffiths is known as the scientist who helped prove that psychedelics can alleviate depression and mental anguish in cancer patients. That... He helped cancer patients find peace through ...

Roland Griffiths spent the later stage of his career exploring the ways that psychedelic drugs, specifically psilocybin, could help patients with... This psychedelics researcher approached his death ...

When one of the foremost pioneers of psychedelics research in the treatment of terminally ill cancer patients was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer, the irony wasn’t lost on him. Because what ...

A Johns Hopkins professor who championed groundbreaking new research into psychedelic substances passed away Monday from colon cancer at the age of 77. Dr. Roland Redmond Griffiths, according to a New ...

Just a few decades ago, the approach would have been unfathomable to many. Using psychedelic drugs to treat people with PTSD? Depression? Addiction? To make them stop smoking? To perhaps treat ...