Psychedelics: Legal But Still Misunderstood

Uncomfortably Curious · Jul 12, 2026 · 51m

A Melbourne psychiatrist spent decades building the case for psychedelic therapy — and became one of the psychiatrists pushing for Australia to legalise it.Nigel Strauss has been a psychiatrist for over 45 years, trained at the Jung Institute in Zurich, and was among the first Australian psychiatrists trained by MAPS in psychedelic‑assisted therapy in the UK in 2014. He ran Melbourne's Millswyn Clinic for around forty years, worked as a psychedelic psychotherapist on Australia's first approved psilocybin trial for end‑of‑life anxiety and depression, and personally sponsored a Monash…