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Inside… psychedelic…

Tara Austin… an expert in behavioural science and a self-described “psychedelic utopian”… calls psychedelics a frontier in “the new civil rights movement” for what many call “cognitive liberty”, or the right to explore and perturb inner space as much as our exterior lives.

They might seem eccentric, but in many ways it is Paul Stamets and his allies who are at the zeitgeist… The mycologist Stamets, who is among the movement’s most prominent figureheads… is supported by lieutenants like Austin, the effervescent leader of a new campaign for Psilocybin Access Rights, a group seeking to ease regulatory barriers to clinical research and making psilocybin, the core ingredient in magic mushrooms, “accessible for patients”. Austin came close to power once: in 2020 she was asked by Dominic Cummings to be Boris Johnson’s spokesperson. But she is dedicated to the psilocybin cause – when she declined Cummings’s offer, she instead requested that he consider the use of psychedelics in British healthcare and criminal justice.

Original Article (New Statesman):
Inside the psychedelic elite
Artwork Fair Use: Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA

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