About the Authors

Marcel O. Bonn-Miller

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sue Sisley

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Scottsdale Research Institute, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Paula Riggs

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Berra Yazar-Klosinski

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Julie B. Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Mallory J. E. Loflin

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mjloflin@gmail.com

Affiliations Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health & National Center for PTSD, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America, San Diego School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Benjamin Shechet

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Scottsdale Research Institute, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Colin Hennigan

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Rebecca Matthews

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Amy Emerson

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Rick Doblin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Author MBM is an employee of Canopy Growth Corporation, during which time he has received stock options, serves on the Board of Directors for AusCann Group Holdings Limited, was a prior employee of Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, and has received consulting fees from Tilray Inc. Author ML serves on the scientific advisory board for FSD Pharma and has received consulting fees from Greenwich Biosciences, Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, and Tilray Inc in the past two years. Authors RD, BY, JW, BS, CH, RM, and AE receive salary from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational organization. Author SS receives salary from the Scottsdale Research Institute, which is a private LLC and has no shareholders. The Academic Editor, BLF, co-authored "The state of clinical outcome assessments for cannabis use disorder clinical trials: A review and research agenda" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32360455/) with one of the authors, MBM. This article was a result of a meeting where a large number of investigators came together to discuss clinical trial outcomes with representative from NIH and FDA. No other relationship between this author and the Academic Editor exists. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.