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Alexander Lekhtman

Alexander Lekhtman is an editorial fellow at Filter.


  • Young People of Color As Leaders in The Movement To End the War on Drugs
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on April 22, 2019
  • The First Step Act is not the criminal justice reform we need. But it's a start.
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on December 21, 2018
  • After 26 years in prison for LSD, and clemency from Obama, Timothy Tyler is a free man
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on September 10, 2018
  • How activists are fighting for full cannabis legalization in Washington, D.C.
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on April 20, 2018
  • DREAMing about Drug Reform: An Interview with Arturo Lua Castillo
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on March 27, 2018
  • Maine Gov vetoes (admittedly flawed) legal cannabis bill, leaving future sales uncertain
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on November 9, 2017
  • International Drug Policy Reform Conference Brings Harm Reduction into Spotlight
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on October 30, 2017
  • Does the First Amendment Protect Spiritual Cannabis Use? A D.C. Activist Plans to Argue For It
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on September 7, 2017
  • Washington Man Facing Prison After Foraging for Wild Mushrooms
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on August 15, 2017
  • Ohio City Gov’t: We have to fine and jail overdose survivors to give them “treatment opportunities”
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on April 13, 2017
  • A Weekend for Women and Weed
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on January 23, 2017
  • Adam Eidinger Calls on Cannabis Community to #SmokeSessions
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on January 9, 2017
  • We Talked with World Ayahuasca Conference Organizer Ben De Loenen
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on October 17, 2016
  • Canada Approves Legal Heroin For Severely Addicted Patients
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on September 28, 2016
  • Obama Commutes Sentences for 111, Including Deadhead Serving Life for LSD
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on September 1, 2016
  • J Walking along Hillary Clinton's Campaign Trail
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on August 29, 2016
  • Activists Bring 51-Foot Cannabis Joint to Hillary Clinton
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on August 19, 2016
  • Manny Pacquiao and Rodrigo Duterte support the death penalty for drug crimes
    By Alexander Lekhtman
    on July 19, 2016

Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet

October 8, 2015

Who am I? How do you answer that question? I’m a mother, a wife, a teacher, a scholar. And I’m also a psychedelic woman.


Taking Drugs Seriously: The Reagans, Socrates, and Hypocrisies

March 10, 2016

No offense to Nancy or the U$ government cocaine-smuggling rings that thrived under the regime of her anti-communist ideologue of a husband, but drugs are endemic to life.


Why I Came Out of the Psychedelic Closet

April 15, 2016

I majored in physics at Princeton. I’m a lawyer who graduated from Georgetown Law. I clerked for a Federal Judge. And, of course, I had a positive, life-changing trip on LSD.


Psychedelics and Identity Politics

May 3, 2016

The decades-long “War on Drugs” has created a situation in which the use of psychedelics is a social justice issue.


Why I’m Staying In the Psychedelic Closet

May 17, 2016

The demonization of psychedelic culture is not a social justice issue, and using the language of social justice is damaging to those causes.


Out Yourself

May 25, 2016

You can’t expect to get equal rights unless you push for them, and you can’t push for them without first standing up and being “out.”


The Psychonaut’s Dilemma

May 31, 2016

During an earlier era of psychedelic research, the 1950s-70s, some scientists believed that in order to ethically administer psychedelics to others it was necessary to first experience them oneself.


Be Honest, Is Your Psychedelic Use Purely “Sacred”?

June 2, 2016

Isn’t it just as valid and meaningful for psychedelics to be used for diversion, entertainment, relaxation, and adventure?


Rick Doblin’s Psychedelic Dreams

June 6, 2016

In the late 70's, about seven years after Rick Doblin decided to become a psychedelic therapist and researcher at age 18, he had this potent dream that confirmed his choice of work.


The Asymmetric Risk of Coming Out in Queer and Psychedelic Communities

June 9, 2016

The risk of coming out as queer is grossly unequal to the risk of disclosing as a psychedelic user.


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