Forget Plant-Based Medicine, MDMA is Now Made From Crude Oil As the psychedelic pharmaceutical industry races to declare the necessity of psychedelics as tools for ending the mental health crisis, petroleum-based MDMA raises significant questions.

by Russell Hausfeld

Psychedelics Corporadelic Culture Science Ethics Series

LSD Chemist William Leonard Pickard Has Been Released From Prison

LSD chemist and longtime drug war prisoner, William Leonard Pickard, was officially released from prison on July 27, 2020. Pickard had been locked down since 2000 and was slated to serve two life sentences without the possibility of parole.

We Need to Talk About MAPS Supporting The Police, The Military, and Violent White Supremacism

by David Nickles

For decades, MAPS and other proponents of psychedelic medicalization have justified their emphasis on treating police and soldiers as a political strategy in service to mainstreaming psychedelic drugs. This strategy perpetuates the logic of white supremacy, capitalism, and imperialism.

Magical (Psychedelic) Thinking in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19

by Rachael Petersen

The George Floyd protests have reframed the debate around surveillance, encryption, and facial recognition The current spotlight on toxic law enforcement culture has propelled conversations about facial recognition and biometric surveillance into mainstream politics. Banning facial recognition is necessary to avoid automating racism and further institutionalizing white supremacy.

by Erica Darragh

DARE to Resist White Supremacy and The Police American policing is a white supremacist institution that has repeatedly demonstrated the degree to which it values property over human life. Our struggles against the police are inseparably entwined with similar struggles around the world, and they cannot be disconnected from larger struggles for human rights.

by Psymposia

Aldous Huxley on the decline of mental health following “progress” in capitalist democracies "In this field prevention is incomparably more important than cure; for cure merely returns the patient to an environment which begets mental illness. But how is prevention to be achieved? That is the sixty-four-billion-dollar question.”

by Alex Brown

Decriminalization offers an ethical counterbalance to address sexual misconduct in psychedelic therapy Sexual violence is already notoriously under-reported, and barriers— including distrust in police—are amplified when victims are also members of a criminalized subculture and were under the influence of illegal drugs when the violence occurred.

by Lily Kay Ross

The Politics of Grief During a Pandemic The grief we live with during the COVID-19 pandemic is political.

by Lily Kay Ross

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Seizing the Doors of Perception

In this episode, we unpack some of the characters and dynamics of the psychedelic “arm” of the Intellectual Dark Web. We use Neşe Devenot’s recently released video on Jamie Wheal, Lucian Tarnowski, and other affiliates of the Rebel Wisdom media platform to explore questions of power, class, and ahistorical theories of social change. Just how much sense do these self-labelled "sensemakers" make?