Rick Strassman is an American clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He has held a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California San Diego and was Professor of Psychiatry for eleven years at the University of New Mexico.[1] After 20 years of intermission, Strassman was the first person in the United States to undertake human research with psychedelic, hallucinogenic,