There’s been a “striking increase” in support for legal and regulated therapeutic access to psychedelics as well as expanded research exploring their medical potential—with a new poll finding that voters have been “warming up” to the alternative treatment option over the last two years.
As the state and federal reform movement has intensified, the University of California, Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) on Wednesday released its second national survey on how voters view the substances, as well as their opinions about differing psychedelics policy proposals.
Overall, the results show that “regulated use with clear guardrails related to safety is gaining traction, while support for unregulated access is not,” the center’s memo on the poll says. That’s based on an analysis of the survey data from 2025, which revealed a “striking increase” in voter approval of “two different kinds of policy approaches” for psychedelics as compared to a prior survey done in 2023.
Support for making psychedelics available as a prescription medicine increased 12 percentage points between 2023 and 2025—growing from 29 percent to 41 percent. Similarly, support for allowing the legal, therapeutic use of psychedelics grew 10 percentage points, from 36 percent to 46 percent in the
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