Culture

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The Asymmetric Risk of Coming Out in Queer and Psychedelic Communities

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

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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.

Videos

Losing your body on Salvia is a heavy trip

Petter Addy, PhD, shares insights on the research he conducted at Yale University exploring the effects of Salvia divinorum and its relationship to body cognition and understandings of the human condition.

Videos

Psilocybin, DXM, or Placebo?

Twig Harper talks about his experience as a participant in the Johns Hopkins psychedelic studies and reflects on the influence of the placebo effect.

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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.