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Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet: Final Thoughts
Regardless of what conclusions we draw, the topic of psychedelics and identity politics is important at a time when public assumptions about psychedelics are transforming.
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Coming Out in Solidarity
Psychedelic users and sexual minorities are both involved in the same struggle. We both represent a valid threat to the same obsolete control mechanisms. We are on the same team.
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The Youth Movement To End The War On Drugs
Most of the information the “D.A.R.E. generation” was taught in school was sensationalized, exaggerated, or simply factually incorrect (typically all three).
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The Asymmetric Risk of Coming Out in Queer and Psychedelic Communities
The risk of coming out as queer is grossly unequal to the risk of disclosing as a psychedelic user.
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Rick Doblin’s Psychedelic Dreams
In the late 70’s, about seven years after Rick Doblin decided to become a psychedelic therapist and researcher at age 18, he had this potent dream that confirmed his choice of work.
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Be Honest, Is Your Psychedelic Use Purely “Sacred”?
Isn’t it just as valid and meaningful for psychedelics to be used for diversion, entertainment, relaxation, and adventure?
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The Psychonaut’s Dilemma
During an earlier era of psychedelic research, the 1950s-70s, some scientists believed that in order to ethically administer psychedelics to others it was necessary to first experience them oneself.
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Out Yourself
You can’t expect to get equal rights unless you push for them, and you can’t push for them without first standing up and being “out.”
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Why I’m Staying In the Psychedelic Closet
The demonization of psychedelic culture is not a social justice issue, and using the language of social justice is damaging to those causes.
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Psychedelics and Identity Politics
The decades-long “War on Drugs” has created a situation in which the use of psychedelics is a social justice issue.
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Why I Came Out of the Psychedelic Closet
I majored in physics at Princeton. I’m a lawyer who graduated from Georgetown Law. I clerked for a Federal Judge. And, of course, I had a positive, life-changing trip on LSD.
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Taking Drugs Seriously: The Reagans, Socrates, and Hypocrisies
No offense to Nancy or the U$ government cocaine-smuggling rings that thrived under the regime of her anti-communist ideologue of a husband, but drugs are endemic to life.