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Rick Doblin’s Psychedelic Dreams

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.

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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?

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.