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Anthropology's Lee Hoffer comments on American use of hallucinogens

MEDIA | October 18, 2023
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

‘Shrooms go upscale amid psychedelics craze
Courthouse NewsLee Hoffer, associate professor of anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, said millions of affluent Americans are using hallucinogens to self-medicate for psychological problems, producing that nation’s newest illegal drug boom. “We’re seeing a lot of people in their 40s, 50s and 60s” doing psychedelics, he said. “They’re white, middle- or upper-middle-class and work as professionals.”