ParappaTheRapper
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Why do you think psychedelics as a thing failed as a medicine and catalyst for societal change?
Psychedelics have had far more subtle and wide-ranging effects on humanity than one can easily quantify.
To call something a failure...first you have to define the parameters of its purpose to begin with.
As far as I'm concerned, 50-odd years is an insignificant amount of time in social and medical history. If the military and intelligence institutions of the west hasn't considered psychedelics a weapon first and foremost (leading to all kinds of horrendous incidents) we might have not lost half a century in proper research.
As for the social effects...they are still reverberating today.
Sure, some idealists might feel that a bunch of utopian ideals did not come about like magic - but a 'side effect' of using psychedelics can be deluded or distorted thinking.
Psychedelic drugs have been a huge catalyst for social change, even if "world peace" has not eventuated.
Top postGreenMachine said:francis crick discovered the double-helix DNA structure as a result of an LSD trip. kary mullis credits LSD for his nobel-prize winning PCR reaction technique. steve jobs says taking LSD was his second or third most important event in his life. look at how the california hippie scene crossed over to silicon valley and the microprocessing revolution. doc ellis pitched a no-hitter in 1970 as pitcher of the pittsburgh pirates. and dont forget all of the incredible music that has come as a direct result of psychedelic use.
francis crick discovered the double-helix DNA structure as a result of an LSD trip.