Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Why are governments so anti-psychedelics?

Lauren Maul (merryjane.com,
 
Can drugs cure us? (nextavenue.org)
What don’t they want our third eyes to see? In the U.S. we are all entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness [not the actual capture of it]…and sometimes, psychedelic [entheogens] play a part in that noble pursuit.

Cancer patients are able to grin in the face of death thanks to magical mushrooms, and people with PTSD are finding relief with MDMA [Ecstasy].

Yet, these wonder drugs and other psychedelics ["mind-making" substances] like them are illegal.
 
Some activists, like Charlotte Walsh of the anti-prohibitionist Ayahuasca Defense Fund, believe that the banning of these drugs is a violation of international human rights law.

“An alcohol user can alter [his or her] consciousness freely despite the proven risks, while a psychedelic user faces heavy punishment. It’s arbitrary discrimination,” says Walsh in an interview with The Atlantic. More

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