Culture


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


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

The Psychonaut’s Dilemma


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.

Out Yourself


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.”

Why I’m Staying In the Psychedelic Closet


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

Psychedelics and Identity Politics


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

Why I Came Out of the Psychedelic Closet


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.

Taking Drugs Seriously: The Reagans, Socrates, and Hypocrisies


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.

Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet


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.

Culture


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


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

The Psychonaut’s Dilemma


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.

Out Yourself


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.”

Why I’m Staying In the Psychedelic Closet


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

Psychedelics and Identity Politics


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

Why I Came Out of the Psychedelic Closet


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.

Taking Drugs Seriously: The Reagans, Socrates, and Hypocrisies


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.

Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet


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.

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