Jeneen Interlandi writes on Newsweek.com:In a report published on July 1st in the Journal of Pharmacology, more than 60 percent of volunteers reported substantial increases in life satisfaction a year after the experiment [with a hallucinogenic compound]. "We have people saying these eight hours in the lab are among the most meaningful in their lives," says Roland Griffiths. "Some rank it alongside births and deaths of loved ones.For a time, it seemed that convincing America's premier research institutions to fund or sponsor research like this was nigh on impossible. In fact, the Journal of Pharmacology study represents one of the first yields of a 30-year effort to rebuild legitimate psychedelic research programs from the ashes of 1960s.So how did Griffiths and his colleagues get the funding and approval to bring magic mushrooms and their pharmacological siblings back into mainstream labs? It's been a long strange trip. In fact, the story of how a small group of scientists worked for decades to revive scientific interest in psychedelic drugs and attract private donors to fill the funding gap left by a skeptical establishment is almost as fascinating as the research itself.