{"id":86157,"date":"2026-09-06T10:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86157"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:40:49","slug":"musk-inner-circle-pushes-to-make-psychedelics-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/musk-inner-circle-pushes-to-make-psychedelics-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Inner Circle Pushes To Make Psychedelics Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Wall Street Journal:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-88157393?width=700&amp;height=706\" alt=\"Pills spilling out of a bottle.\" width=\"411\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1hwu21o0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">Antonio Gracias\u00a0and\u00a0Steve Jurvetson\u00a0made a fortune from their bets on\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/SPCX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"company\">SpaceX<\/a> when it was still a risky space startup. That isn\u2019t the only long-shot wager the billionaires have placed.\u00a0\u00a0Gracias and Jurvetson, who are directors at SpaceX and allies of Chief Executive\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/person\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"person\">Elon Musk<\/a>, have spent millions of dollars on philanthropic efforts to mainstream psychedelic drugs, including MDMA, the drug commonly known as ecstasy and molly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall css-1u1nl00-PaywalledContentContainer e1qcjy9n0\">\n<p class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1hwu21o0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">Last year, Gracias cut a $25 million check from his family foundation to help recapitalize the pharmaceutical company Lykos Therapeutics, after federal regulators rejected its application for MDMA in conjunction with therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, sending the company into a financial tailspin. Lykos had drawn criticism for missing\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/ecstasy-drug-trials-missed-suicidal-thoughts-of-subjects-888ebfa1?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\">serious side effects<\/a>\u00a0in some study subjects, including suicidal thoughts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal: Antonio Gracias\u00a0and\u00a0Steve Jurvetson\u00a0made a fortune from their bets on\u00a0SpaceX when it was still a risky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86158,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86157\/revisions\/86158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}