The Standard

Public. Evidence-graded. Physician-owned. The shared bar for how people are safely prepared, screened, and honestly informed before any psychedelic or emerging therapy — worldwide.

New — the uniting piece. The Common Outcome Protocol is the shared way every clinic, study group, and university measures readiness, safety, and results — so the field's evidence finally pools into one credible record. Read the protocol →

The promise

Honest by design

The standard is free to read and openly versioned. Its guiding rule is simple:

The Honesty Compact: "We will always tell you the truth about what we know, what we think, what is still being studied, and what nobody yet knows. We will never oversell a benefit or hide a risk. This supports an informed decision with a medical team — it does not replace clinical care or consent."

What it covers

One Common Core + a safety annex per medicine

The universal spine applies to every treatment; each medicine adds its own specific dangers and screening.

1 · Screen

Universal medical + cardiovascular + psychiatric screening and full medication reconciliation.

2 · Prepare

Conservative, test-first terrain optimization and psychological + caregiver preparation.

3 · Clear-to-Treat

A documentation handoff — the go/no-go always belongs to the treating clinician.

Modality annexes: Ibogaine (cardiac) · MDMA (serotonin/heat) · Ketamine (bladder/dependence) · Psilocybin & LSD (psychological/HPPD) · Cannabis (psychosis) · Kratom (liver/dependence) — extensible to any new medicine.

The documents

What makes up the standard

The full, evidence-graded body of work — open to read and review.

White Paper →

The evidence review behind the standard.

Read

Protocol v1 →

Common Core + per-medicine safety annexes.

Read

Modality Library →

An honest brief for every medicine.

Read

Patient Track →

The 12-module patient course.

Read

Caregiver Track →

The 8-module caregiver course.

Read

Certification →

How programs certify to the standard.

Read

Integrity

Governance & how it stays honest

Independent standards council — a psychedelic-medicine physician, toxicologist, neuropharmacologist, ethics member, plus veteran & caregiver representatives.
Named Medical Director owns all clinical content, thresholds, and sign-off — version-controlled with a public change log.
Conflict-of-interest firewall — the standards function is separate from any product sales; certification is never contingent on buying anything.
Public & free — the standard is open to read, and certified programs are listed publicly.

Read the full charter → The Standards & Registry Council Governance Charter — composition, the COI firewall, how amendments happen, and the path to full independence.

Status: DRAFT v1 — pending a named clinician-of-record's sign-off before any clinical content is used with patients. Authority is earned, not declared.

Operation Whole Health — Patriot-founded 501(c)(3). The Readiness Standard — prototype page, DRAFT v0.1.

Educational/organizational only; not medical advice, not an endorsement of any Schedule I substance. Substances vary in legality by jurisdiction; all clinical decisions belong to treating clinicians. In crisis? Veterans Crisis Line: dial 988, then press 1.