huzzah for psychedelics

drug use and drug policy was and still is a fascination of mine. working with danceSafe for so many years, mingling in and out of crowds who would partake in various mind-altering substances, gotta love those raves! and clubs! or just a good old saturday night. i'd say i had my fair share of drug experiences. getting to visit alexander shulgin and his wife was one of the highlights of my involvement. we won't mention whether any of my drug experiences were direct or not. but drugs, be it alcohol or E, affected my life profoundly on many levels, from the public health classes i took to the people i socialized with to the way it opened my perspective on the marginalized groups of society.

it's been a while since those days, probably for the better, now that i'm all "grown-up" supposedly. doctor must set a proper example. yet, here's an article which sparked my interest for the umpteenth time, publicizing studies that i've been following for the last couple years on using E as a psychiatric treatment, the way it was meant to be used from the 1970s.

http://www.slate.com/id/2158144/?nav=ais

so before you proclaim a "war on drugs" (don't even get me started), consider what is a drug. consider the number of legal substances used and abused that are much more harmful for us as humans. consider why some drugs (alcohol, tobacco) are legal and others are not. think about the benefits that lie in some of those drugs listed under schedule 1, especially those that are plant-derived. if an illegal drug can help a person work through anxiety and post-traumatic stress with little to no side effects, isn't it worth exploring?

perhaps recreational use could be a option too.