First off, thank you (read: entire staff) for continuously shining a light on the remaining mysteries around psychedelics, having to work around their legal status.
I fondly remember the podium discussion with Mrs. Booher - and, of course, Mr. Doblin in the audience - at the Psychedelic Science Panel Event in Vienna early last year, back when an audience member could still try to squeeze between dozens of collegues to snatch the chance of shaking both of your hands. Since then, inspired by the event, I myself have found an opportunity to contribute a very tiny little bit towards a potential therapeutic future of hallucinogens (psilocybin, specifically).
Towards that point: In most countries, unlike legal drugs, recreational use of hallucinogens is always perceived as (criminal) abuse. Due to the increased public awareness of the potential to achieve incredible therapeutic effects (thanks, Dr.Google), a lot of people find it hard to accept to wait many years until a legal therapeutic scheme can be developed and instead increasingly turn towards a non-professional application (speaking of Germany, Switzerland and Austria).
if it was up to you, how would the legal therapeutic procedure for treatment resistant depression, PTSD, OCD, schizoid symptoms and all the other conceivable applications for hallucinogens look like, considering the ever widening schism between the socioeconomic classes, higher incidence of psychological afflictions in those lower rungs and probable high costs or barriers?
I`ve seen Mr. Doblin answering similar questions in previous AMA`s, but, again, regarding a likely future necessity for safe environments in case of national decriminalisation (as we`ve seen in the states of Denver, Colorado and Oakland) or even legalisation and the following interest of possibly thousands or millions of people; if you had the chance to have a place at the political discussion table, how would you design a recreational option for relatively harmless drugs e.g. MDMA or Psilocybin? Or would you prefer decentralised, informal opportunities, even in the absence of trained "tripsitters"?
Thank you so much for your work, time and patience. If I had managed to squeeze past my collegues last year, this post would probably have been far shorter.
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First off, thank you (read: entire staff) for continuously shining a light on the remaining mysteries around psychedelics, having to work around their legal status.
I fondly remember the podium discussion with Mrs. Booher - and, of course, Mr. Doblin in the audience - at the Psychedelic Science Panel Event in Vienna early last year, back when an audience member could still try to squeeze between dozens of collegues to snatch the chance of shaking both of your hands. Since then, inspired by the event, I myself have found an opportunity to contribute a very tiny little bit towards a potential therapeutic future of hallucinogens (psilocybin, specifically).
Towards that point: In most countries, unlike legal drugs, recreational use of hallucinogens is always perceived as (criminal) abuse. Due to the increased public awareness of the potential to achieve incredible therapeutic effects (thanks, Dr.Google), a lot of people find it hard to accept to wait many years until a legal therapeutic scheme can be developed and instead increasingly turn towards a non-professional application (speaking of Germany, Switzerland and Austria).
Thank you so much for your work, time and patience. If I had managed to squeeze past my collegues last year, this post would probably have been far shorter.
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