TABLE 1.
Participant characteristics (N = 1,606).
| Age at time of survey completion in years (mean, SD) | 35.1 (13.3) |
| Age at time of reference experience in years (mean, SD)1 | 26.9 (10.1) |
| Years since the reference experience (mean, SD)1 | 8.2 (12.6) |
| Lifetime number of uses of a classic psychedelic (mean, SD) | 20.9 (25.7) |
| Reference experience was their first belief-changing psychedelic experience (%)1 | 44% |
| Psychedelic used at time of reference experience (%)1 | |
| Psilocybin mushrooms | 49% |
| LSD (Acid) | 33% |
| Ayahuasca | 7% |
| N,N-DMT (other than ayahuasca) | 6% |
| 5-MeO-DMT | 3% |
| Mescaline (including Peyote and San Pedro cacti) | 2% |
| Male Sex (%) | 67% |
| Race (%) | |
| White | 89% |
| Asian | 6% |
| Black | 1% |
| Native American | 2% |
| Other | 9% |
| Ethnicity (% Hispanic) | 11% |
| Marital Status (%) | |
| Married and living with spouse | 29% |
| Living with partner | 21% |
| Divorced/Separated | 8% |
| Widowed | 1% |
| Never married | 41% |
| Country (%) | |
| United States | 69% |
| Canada | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 4% |
| Australia | 4% |
| Germany | 2% |
| Education (%) | |
| High School/GED or below | 10% |
| Some College, no degree | 21% |
| Trade school/Associates degree | 12% |
| Bachelor’s Degree | 32% |
| Master’s Degree | 17% |
| Advanced professional degree (e.g., Ph.D./MD) | 8% |
| Annual household Income (%) | |
| Under $25,000 | 21% |
| 25,000–34,999 | 10% |
| 35,000–49,999 | 12% |
| 50,000–74,999 | 14% |
| 75,000–99,999 | 11% |
| 100,000–124,999 | 10% |
| 125,000–199,000 | 0% |
| 200,000–500,000 | 9% |
| Over $500,000 | 2% |
1Reference experience indicates the psychedelic experience that produced the greatest belief-change for the survey respondent. The survey was completed on the basis of that experience.