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David Nickles

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David Nickles is Managing Editor of Psymposia, underground researcher, and harm reduction advocate. He has presented social critiques and commentary on psychedelic culture and radical politics, as well as novel phytochemical data from the DMT-Nexus, at venues around the world.

David’s work focuses on the social and cultural implications of psychoactive substances, utilizing critical theory and structural analysis to examine the intersections of drugs and society. He is a vocal opponent of the mainstreaming and commodification of psychedelic compounds and rituals, believing that such approaches inherently obscure the liberatory potential of psychedelic experiences.


  • Hamilton Morris Hired by Psilocybin Startup COMPASS Pathways, Ends "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" On Vice
    By David Nickles
    on September 22, 2021
  • COMPASS Pathways Is Trying to Patent Psilocybin for More Mental Health Conditions Than You Can Name
    By David Nickles
    on March 18, 2021
  • Psychedelic Media Should Stop Parroting Corporate Press Releases
    By David Nickles
    on October 12, 2020
  • We Need to Talk About MAPS Supporting The Police, The Military, and Violent White Supremacism
    By David Nickles
    on July 17, 2020
  • Bicycle Day 2020 Was Truly Historic, But Not for the Reasons You Think
    By David Nickles
    on April 25, 2020
  • Eleusis Benefit Corp: Taking the “Psychedelic” Out of Psychedelics
    By David Nickles
    on February 11, 2020
  • BBC Duped into Promoting Marketing Scheme for Microdosing Psychedelics
    By David Nickles
    on January 15, 2020
  • This is what psychedelic mainstreaming looks like...in Arizona
    By David Nickles
    on February 4, 2019
  • It’s time to debunk prohibitionist narratives and calls for monopolies within psychedelic science
    By David Nickles
    on October 25, 2018

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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