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>>The psychedelic renaissance will resemble the 1960s, only this time, it will take place under medical authorities and state supervision, with the corporate sheen of celebrity endorsement.
It was originally released by big pharma (Sandoz) and advocated by medical authorities and academics (1950s and 1960s).
Gee, I guess Sandoz can get back into the LSD business after how many years?
(cues up Eric Burdon’s song: “A Girl Called Sandoz”)
The Sixties 2.0. And then, the Seventies 2.0. Ugh.
How do you market hallucinogenic toads?......................Asking for a friend.....................
That was Leary’s approach to acid. Controlled set and setting. The free-wheeling West Coast acid heads...Alan Watts and Ken Kesey...were the ones that advocated for doing psychedelics out in the world. And out in the world, people mix alcohol, meth, and who knows what with their psychedelics, and circumstances beyond anyone’s control...”realities” like traffic, dogs, the police...intrude upon their trip. The mistake that both camps made was to believe that people are universally intelligent and high-minded. This ends badly.
All those day-glo freaks who used to paint the face
They’ve joined the human race
Is there gas in the car?
I think the people down the hall know who you are
With “fatality rates at basically zero” what could go wrong?
There is a fascinating book The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis (2018).
They went thought new source materials and interviews. Each of the men thought the other was the most dangerous.
I really do not know what to believe about Leary. I saw him speak once. A showman as well as a seeker. Could work a room.
Hunter Thompson believed Leary was the biggest CIA double agent and liar in the country. Hated his guts.
He made a deal to let his sweet wife go to prison instead of him at one point. That probably sums him up for me.
I wonder how many people were led into the danger of LSD use and never came back. Suicide, worsened existing mental illness, prison record, destroyed relationships.
Bullshit article
Based on bullshit theory
By folks with no real time experience
We are in no danger of becoming trip nation
Most people simply cannot handle it nor do I advocate it even as one who (learned) I could
Silly silly
And from the Federalist
More liberalism. More leftism. More emotionalism. More irrationality.more obedience. More totalitarianism.
Tim Leary, remember hir? Hir was talking about how we need to change gender pronouns fifty years ago.
Aldous Huxley : “Did I call it or did I call it?”
