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Sept. 15, 2024 – The Psychedelic Assembly attracts a certain type of clientele. The walls of the group’s Manhattan meeting space are lined with LSD blotter art and Alice in Wonderland paraphernalia. Rows of bookshelves are filled with esoteric titles…
Suffice to say, those who find their way there tend to check certain boxes: liberal, Northeastern, experienced with mind-altering substances. They do not tend to be politically and religiously conservative lawmen from one of the reddest states in the U.S.
But on a sunny morning in May, that’s exactly who walked in: Bryan Hubbard, an attorney fresh from Lexington, Kentucky. Hubbard was on a drug-themed visit to New York City—part of a very unexpected turn of events that began in 2022 when he embarked on a yearslong journey into the heart of psychedelic-assisted healing. His stop at the Psychedelic Assembly “was just kind of the icing on the surreality cake,” he says.
