The masters of bad trips
At a certain point, ignorance is willful. The psychedelic community has refused to learn critical lessons about ethics and safety… we are having these conversations at the dawn of medicalization.
The problem is… bad ideas… they go back to the earliest days of psychedelic research and psychedelics as a cultural phenomenon within industrial contexts. Abuse has been here all along. Before we get to repair and restoration, justice and healing, I believe we have to look – without flinching – at what has happened… we have to look at abuse and its consequences in the lives of victims. We have to look at the cover story – the techniques of silencing and enabling that have allowed this abuse to go unchecked…
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The masters of bad trips
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