MAPS's website has a current and very thorough listing of all psychedelic research done worldwide, including recent trials with MDMA, psilocybin, ibogaine, and I believe there is a study in the planning stages now using aya, in S. America, I believe. (sorry, didn't log in to the site before posting this, don't think details are necc, go look if you want correct info.)
There may be some chemical research being done without using human test subjects, being in the metabolic path to 5-ht, there may be some non-clinical stuff happening.
I seriously doubt there is anything conspiratorial going on. Thinking that everything is conspiracy confounds real issues, blinding one to the bills going through our congress, CISPA and other rights destroying legislation, let alone the 'liberal' war Obummer is about to send us into.
Sine experientia nihil sufficienter sciri potest -Roger Bacon
*γνῶθι σεαυτόν*