We could soon see what a brain on acid looks like: A team of researchers at Imperial College London and the Beckley Foundation want to take brain scans that can directly show the effects of LSD. They've, in fact, already done the research. What they need is the money to publish the results.
Crowdsourcing may seem like an unusual step for neuroscience—that is, until you consider the subject matter: a (very) illegal drug strictly controlled by the British government. That's not the kind of research many foundations or governments want to fund.
The Beckley Foundation does research on mind-altering drugs and their effects on humans. It pushes for drug reform, too. LSD and other such drugs are so strongly associated with recreational use in the 1960s that it's easy to forget LSD was intended as a psychiatric drug when it was introduced. Recent research has revived the idea that such drugs could be used to treat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other ailments.