The Future of Psychedelics: EPIC

The Future of Psychedelics is at Exeter Phoenix on Thursday 19 November, a community dialogue about the future of psychedelic research in the UK. It's run by The Psychedelic Society and The Ouroboros Foundation, a UK non-profit that supports community-rooted, independent psychedelic mental-health research.

The night is built around a panel discussion and a live Q&A, with the conversation covering the scientific, cultural, therapeutic and ethical sides of the research. It also introduces the Exeter Psychedelic Interdisciplinary Centre (EPIC), a new academic hub that brings together neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, ecology and the arts, and the MSc Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture taught by the faculty.

That faculty makes up the panel: Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Professor Celia Morgan, Dr Leor Roseman, Dr Andy Letcher, Dr Anjali Bhat and Dr Simon Ruffell, with Zephyr Wood facilitating. Sjöstedt-Hughes is a philosopher of mind and co-director of Breaking Convention; Celia Morgan is a Professor of Psychopharmacology. The whole thing is designed to bring academia and the community together in the same room to talk through where this research is heading.

It's held in the Auditorium at Exeter Phoenix on Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS. Doors open at 19:00, the panel discussion starts at 19:35, and the live Q&A follows at 20:15. Tickets are £16, plus a £1.50 ticketing system charge.