Dr. Rick Strassman

Dr. Rick Strassman (born February 8, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is a medical doctor specialized in psychiatry with a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research. 

Rick Strassman MD performed the first new human studies with
psychedelic drugs in the US in over 20 years.

Rick Strassman was the first person in the United States after twenty years of intermission to embark on human research with psychedelic, hallucinogenic, or entheogenic substances. 
During the intermission period, research was restricted by law to animals studies only.