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Psychedelics exploded in the 60s like a nuclear bomb
We had never seen anything like them. We had no models, societal, medical, or religious, to deal with them. Many were threatened by them.
Dennis McKenna is an ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer and author. He is the brother of well-known psychedelics proponent Terence McKenna and is a founding board member and the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization concerned with the investigation of the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic medicines.
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