I’m a long-time classic psychedelic user and future researcher, and just recently tried MDMA for the first time. As someone who may be designing clinical trials with psychedelics one day, I feel there is a personal responsibility to understand what each of these substances feels like in order to know what the potential benefits and limitations may be for specific conditions and sets of circumstances. At the same time, I must remain in the closet out of the risk to my career. Articles like this give me hope that it will become socially acceptable one day for psychedelic therapists and scientists to more intimately understand the substances they work with.