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Any such complaint must be in writing and submitted within 180 days following the date of the alleged occurrence to: Title VI Officer University of California Berkeley Office of Ethics, Risk, and Compliance Services University of California, Berkeley 200 California Hall # 1500 Berkeley, CA 94720-1500 Public Notice of ADA Rights and Non-discrimination Statement In accordance Five Big Takeaways from the 2025 UC Berkeley Psychedelics Survey - UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics Skip to content UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics BCSP Menu Close Search Donate About Mission and Vision Our Values Who We Are News Contact and Giving Disclaimer Journalism The Microdose Altered States Podcast The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowships The Mycoskie-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowships Basic Science Scientific Research at the BCSP Applied Research and Policy UC Berkeley Psychedelics Survey Law and Policy Map Patent Tracker Culture and Community Events Psychedelics in Society and Culture The Mycoskie-UC Berkeley Social Media Fellowship Collective Continuance: Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship Public Education Clinical Trials Map Psychedelics 101 Substances About Clinical Trials Therapy Understanding Risk Microdosing Patents Psychedelics and Spirituality Incubated Programs Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program Search Donate Click below for summaries of the science and history of psychedelic substances: 5-MeO-DMT Ayahuasca DMT LSD Mescaline Psilocybin Ibogaine Ketamine MDMA Salvia divinorum Five Big Takeaways from the 2025 UC Berkeley Psychedelics Survey Posted on May 13, 2026 May 13, 2026 Psychedelics are having a moment — in labs, in legislatures and in mental health spaces. But how does the U.S. public actually feel about them? That’s what the UC Berkeley Psychedelics Survey set out to find. Now in its second administration, this year’s survey tracks shifting American attitudes during a period of rapid legal, scientific, political and cultural change — providing the kind of data that can inform policymaking and public education. Building on an inaugural survey in 2023, the BCSP researchers refined their methodology and expanded into new areas of public opinion. Below, postdoctoral research scientist Tyrone Sgambati walks us through five big findings from 2025. (Note: The BCSP does not advocate for any specific policy positions or ballot measures). Read more about the report here . Join the BCSP authors of the report (titled A Rising Tide of Cautious Support) , Tyrone Sgambati, Andrea Venezia and Kuranda Morgan, for a webinar on Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 10amPDT/1pmEDT to go over the results of the survey. Registration is free and open to anyone. Takeaway #1 Exposure to psychedelics is reaching new heights in the U.S., with an increasing number of voters reporting proximity to psychedelics. While definitions differ, when people use the term psychedelics, the substances they are referring to often include psilocybin, LSD, DMT, ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, mescaline, ibogaine, ketamine and MDMA. In our 2025 survey, we found that 57% of voters had either used psychedelics themselves or knew someone close to them who had — up from 53% in 2023. What’s especially interesting is that certain demographics saw much larger increases over that same time period. Three groups stand out: Black voters, older voters (over 65) and conservative voters all saw outsized increases in proximity to psychedelics. That means, for example, 15% more Black voters reported proximity to psychedelics than they did two years ago. Those groups are still below the national average in terms of overall exposure, but they’re catching up fast. A large proportion of voters see psychedelics as potentially useful for mental health conditions, whether that’s end-of-life distress, PTSD, trauma, anxiety or depression. Takeaway # 2 There is a lack of trust in professional sources of information about psychedelics, such as medical professionals. In the survey, we asked about trust on different categories of people providing information on psychedelics. They included medical professionals, mental health professionals, professors at universities, faith leaders, etc. One big takeaway for us was that out of seven sources of information about psychedelics, none were overwhelmingly trusted by the population. Mental health professionals came out on top, but only around 30% of voters said they found them very trustworthy on this topic. That said, the most common response across the board was “somewhat trustworthy” and to me, that points to a potential opening for these sources to build trust with voters.  Takeaway # 3 Support for policy reform is increasing.  This is one of the most interesting takeaways to me. We tracked support for policy proposals over time, and the picture is nuanced. On the one hand, we saw strong increases in support for regulated access — making psychedelics available as a prescription medicine and legalizing them for therapeutic use — and making it easier for scientists to study them. More than 50% of voters support making psychedelics easier to research, making it the most popular policy reform proposal we are tracking. On the other hand, support for decriminalizing personal use and possession of psychedelics remained unchanged, with only around 25% of voters indicating their support. My read on that distinction is that a minority share of the population are increasingly supportive of regulated, controlled access, but significant concerns around safety remain. Takeaway # 4 People generally perceive psychedelics as most useful for PTSD and other mental health conditions . A large proportion of voters see psychedelics as potentially useful for mental health conditions, whether that’s end-of-life distress, PTSD, trauma, anxiety or depression. Support was generally higher for treatment-resistant diagnoses, which might indicate a belief that psychedelics shouldn’t be the first line of treatment, but might be worth considering when nothing else has worked.  It’s also worth noting the high levels of uncertainty in these responses. For each of the uses we asked about, 17-33% of voters said they simply didn’t know how useful psychedelics would be — which speaks to a broader gap in public knowledge around the efficacy and the safety of psychedelics. Takeaway # 5 Concern and stigma about psychedelics is widespread, though many voters report not knowing enough to make judgements. We asked voters to compare the safety of psychedelics to alcohol and tobacco, and only about 20% of voters said that psychedelics were safer than either. But when we asked about use in a supervised setting, the numbers shifted: 34% felt that supervised psychedelic use would be safe. We take that as a sign that people do believe that context and precautions matter.  We also found that over a third of voters consider psychedelics addictive, and 24% view people who use them as irresponsible or addicts. At the same time, users are most commonly perceived as open-minded and creative. So social perception is really mixed amongst our participants: creative and open-minded on one hand by some, while reckless and irresponsible by others. Learn more about the 2025 UC Berkeley Psychedelics Survey here . 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By Anne Brice Previous Slide Next Slide Pianist Lara Downes performs alongside the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir for This Land: Reflections on America, the final event of Cal Performances’ spring season. Other artists in the May 9 performance included folk icon Judy Collins, poet Tarriona "Tank” Ball and the bluegrass quartet Invoke. Brittany Hosea-Small Poet Tarriona "Tank” Ball performs with Invoke. Brittany Hosea-Small Folk icon Judy Collins performs with the bluegrass quartet Invoke. Brittany Hosea-Small The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. Brittany Hosea-Small May 15, 2026 Follow Berkeley Talks , a Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. See all Berkeley Talks . It was the morning after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and pianist Lara Downes was catching a flight from California to Kentucky, where she was set to perform later in the evening. “It was a very weird day to be anywhere,” she recalls. That night, she performed songs from her album America Again in Louisville, a city that mirrored the country’s own deep political divide. Coming from California, Downes expected Louisville to feel tense after the election. Instead, she found that the music — curated to explore the “American Dream” through the lens of diverse composers like Florence Price and Morton Gould — created a shared space of mourning and hope that transcended the maps on the news. As she played pieces like Price’s “Fantasie Nègre” and Gould’s “American Caprice,” Downes had a profound realization. “I think I learned in that moment how much all of the emotions that we feel about being American — the affection and the nostalgia and the confusion and the sadness and the anger — all of it really is expressed in the music,” she says.  That idea — music as a shared emotional language — continues to shape Downes’ work today. In May, she brought an all-star cast of musicians to UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall to join her on her newest project, This Land: Reflections on America . Alongside folk icon Judy Collins, poet Tarriona “Tank” Ball, the Austin-based string and bluegrass quartet Invoke, and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, she performed songs like the traditional African American spiritual “This Little Light Of Mine,” Paul Simon’s “America” and Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times Come Again No More.” The performance reflects Downes’ ongoing effort to explore what it means to be American through music — a question that also led her to create The Declaration