The world of psychedelics is changing. I hadn't realized how much until I visited Nushama , a psychedelic wellness center in midtown Manhattan. Before arriving, I expected the clinic to be an aesthetic crossover between one of those new Millennial-focused dentist offices all my friends started going to, and Kim Kardashian's home : clean lines, neutral colors, and white chairs.

Well, I was right about the chairs. But the experience curated by Nushama is far from neutral. The walls boast pink nude nymphs clumped together to create a mural of cherry blossom trees.

Celestial music plays throughout the facility. And upon entry I was greeted by a ceiling draped with white and pink flowers and handed fruit-infused water by a receptionist with a warm smile. "We want people to walk into a dream world, a wonderland," Jay Godfrey, former fashion designer and cofounder of Nushama, tells PS.

Walking down the corridor to meet with Nushama's medical director, Steven Radowitz, MD, I took note of all the closed doors to my left. Next to each was a plaque printed with the name of a different pioneer in the psychedelic community. And behind those closed doors were patients being administered intravenous doses of ketamine.

Ketamine was first developed in the 1960s as a potential anesthetic. It worked, but it also had psychoactive effects, which appealed to people interested in its recreational uses. It became popular among "club kids" in the 1980s and '90s, New York Magazine reports , and contin.