ParappaTheRapper
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What do you think the year will be when prescription psycs are available? Why? How would it work, need a license?
Prescription drugs are the most abused drugs on the planet. As if this site, probably the most reasonable drug forum on the net, wasn't evidence enough that people aren't ready for psychedelic use (using multiple times a week, combining recklessly, etc.), prescription psychedelics would lead to another disaster. What would they be prescribed for, and, furthermore, who would decide their applicability? The results of psychonautical research are not yet far enough along to support prescription for any given condition, particularly in view of the psychological dangers inherent in their use. I used to believe that access to psychedelic drugs was something of a right, like being able to buy alcohol when you're of age, but no longer. It is a privilege that even many or most on this site do not deserve, quite frankly.
Psychedelics should be available only to serious psychonautical researchers and their use in recreational activities should be more or less abolished. The psychonaut must demonstrate a proficiency in the relevant areas of chemistry, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy, psychology, theology, cognitive science, and one or more mystical traditions. Even this does not guarantee a mind subtle enough to make the relevant distinctions and slowly draw supported conclusions on the basis of originarily intuitable metastabilities and the symbolic codifications that are correlated with these.
The idea of big business psychedelics signifies the final loss of the originary meaning of the discovery and history of the healing and mind-expanding powers of entheogenic compounds. This movement has already been initiated in the one-sided methods of studying psychedelics in an "official" capacity as the business of isolated sciences, each with its own methods, goals, and assumptions.
EDIT: sorry, I should have made clear that I meant psychedelics should only be made available in an official/legal capacity to said researchers. i still think there is value in a countercultural presence of festivals celebrating psychedelic drug use, much in the tradition of the Eleusinian mysteries and the shamanic traditions. These, too, have the capacity to help us return back and inquire into the originary meaning of the psychedelic experience.
I think that the way in which psychedelics will first become legitimate for medical use is not by prescription but for use under guided therapy as a one-off or short series of experiences. I can't see them prescribing LSD to take as-needed, but I do believe that it's not as far off as it might feel where professionals will be dosing people with LSD for guided therapy purposes.