What RFK Jr.’s Support for Psychedelic Therapy Means for Its Future

Marlena Robbins, a Graduate Fellow at the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, was a guest on KQED Forum. She commented that the intersection of psychedelic medicine with Indigenous knowledge frameworks creates a legacy of biopiracy and bioprospecting: "Going into Indigenous communities and extracting ceremony, medicine, knowledge systems, stories, songs and then bringing it back to the market for mass consumption." Robbins believes science from Indigenous and Western worldviews should work in tandem, actively learning from and teaching each other.