The medicalized psychedelic narrative is out of control
…remember when tripping on mushrooms in the forest and taking MDMA on a dance floor at an underground rave was fun?
Not on the corporate psychedelia watch. Psychedelics are tools of the medical establishment now, cogs in a closed loop economy dictated by pharmaceutical conglomerates and their armies of gatekeepers. Tripping is now serious business… the sudden onslaught of overnight authorities positioning themselves as champions of mental health and chomping at the bit to advocate for psychedelics as a clinical treatment for X, Y, and Z without consideration of underlying socioeconomic and environmental determinants conspiring to create the mental health crisis in the first place is laughably myopic and disingenuous… either way, the market for psilocybin will slowly unravel similar to cannabis. Psilocybin mushrooms are simply too pervasive and easy to make with a mushroom kit… the idea of supervised psychedelic usage may be fine for some first time users but psilocybin particularly is much too safe to require such a strange and ridiculous restriction, really just to monetize usage and appease the FDA.
Original Article (High Times):
The medicalized psychedelic narrative is out of control
Artwork Fair Use: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope from Greenbelt, MD
