Rick Strassman

Rick Strassman is an American clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine He has held a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California San Diego and was Professor of Psychiatry for eleven years at the University of New Mexico1 After 20 years of intermission Strassman was the first person in the United States to undertake human research with psychedelic hallucinogenic or entheogenic substances with his research on NNdimethyltryptamine also known as DMT He is also the author of DMT The Spirit Molecule which summarizes his academic research into DMT and other experimental studies of it and includes his own reflections and conclusions based on this research