Toms Shoes Founder Talks Funding for Psychedelics: The Dose

Welcome to this week’s issue of The Dose. The cannabis and psychedelics industries are ramping up for the fall conference season. Meanwhile, the events announced at some of last spring’s events are still unfolding — including one of the biggest pledges ever to psychedelics science.

Toms Shoes, Blake’s visions

Blake Mycoskie, the founder of Toms Shoes, announced earlier this year that he’d give $100 million to support research into the medical and mental health potential of psychedelic drugs.

After making the pledge, earlier this year at one of the biggest psychedelics gatherings in history, he rushed offstage to a honeymoon in ...