I dont like the name of this thread :( But what can we call them!?

[halfHead]

Hello I am all for open source information and medicine but I couldn't go past this title. I know, literally, they ARE psychedelic drugs but, you know what I'm going to say Negative connotation! Even psychedelic has a negative connotation in the older circles. But the word "drug" just screams "dirty".

I have been thinking about this for a while. Generally when I have questions about psychoactives/psychedelics/entheogenics/etc, I ask the person/people what they prefer them to be called. I think we need a new name for these substances! I also think psychoactive is inaccurate because you can have a psychoactive experience without it being psychedelic but you cannot have a psychedelic experience without it being psychoactive. Entheogenic, meaning "generating the divine within" or "generating the god within", doesn't fit all people's way of thinking. God also has a "negative" connotation.

So what? I've always loved the term "teacher plants" or "teacher mushrooms". Too simple though. Any thoughts!?

sentire experientiam "Experiencing Experience".... hehe

 

[lovepsychadelics]

All drugs are medications all medications are drugs. Methamphetamine for example is a medication for over weight people in the USA. Many drugs are discarded products of pharmaceutical research. Psychoactive... an SSRI is psychoactive. To assume a plant is less potentially dangerous than a synthetically derived "drug" is often a fatal misconception. How about abandoning the Latin and Dionysus new age type ideology and realize that all things are as they are: psychedelic drugs are labeled as such because they to some degree effect our psychological state indeed 4 aco dmt with etizolam and codeine make for a lovely psychedelic experience. If I come across as rude or abrupt I apologize but why psychedelics attract so many new age wowsers is beyond me. Ohh this is a ++++ trip in the shulgin scale.

 

[Solipsis]

Just because a lot of people are misinformed about drugs and base their opinion on skewed perspectives from scary stories and demonisation by media and rumors... doesn't mean we should find a euphemism.

What needs to change is how people are educated about drugs, that may help.

But technically everything ranging from the most therapeutic safe / harmless medication to the most serious drug of abuse... is all drugs because they have an action on the mind/body.

If anything, use the word you used yourself already: psychedelic as a noun rather than adjective.