NEW YORK — The big white pill was brought to her in an earthenware chalice. She’d already held hands with her two therapists and expressed her wishes for what it would help her do. She swallowed it, lay on the couch with her eyes covered, and waited. And then it came. ‘The world was made up of jewels and I was in a dome,’ she recalled. Surrounded by brilliant, kaleidoscopic colors, she saw the dome open up to admit ‘this most incredible luminescence that made everything even more beautiful.’ Tears trickled down her face as she saw ‘how beautiful the world could actually be.’ That’s how Nicky Edlich, 67, began her first-ever trip on a psychedelic drug last year. She says it has greatly helped her psychotherapeutic treatment for anxiety from her advanced ovarian cancer. And for researchers, it was another small step toward showing that hallucinogenic drugs, famous but condemned in the 1960s, can one day help doctors treat conditions like cancer anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. The New York University study Edlich participated in is among a handful now going on in the United States and elsewhere with drugs like LSD, […]