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| 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
Can Psychedelic Drugs Cure What Ails Us? Michael Pollan's book argues that "white-coat shamanism" and a little acid may help (by Shayla Thiel Stern)
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