neurotic
Bluelighter
i'm actually afraid of what legalization and further regularization of psychedelics might do to them.
like, instead of them being easily, cleanly and safely available, they are instead monopolized and monetized. i really think they have potential for that. some greedy enterpreneurs exploiting desperate people in their mid-life crisis or something. don't people already pay tons of money to travel to South America and have Ayahuasca experiences? well, let me tell you, i live in South America where this shit is legalized and common BUT you can't go around and buy Chacrona nor Caapi. St. Daime churches have a monopoly on this kind of shit: you have to go to a church and stand up for hours and take bullshit from a random shaman if you want the experience. you can buy stuff like Mimosa and Harmala to make your own brew, but that's just because the guys at St. Daime don't even know it's the same thing 8) if they knew, they'd jump at it already.
everybody is like dying for the "light at the end of the tunnel", for some mystical, magical (and easy!) cure for all those existential problems and whatever. pop spiritualism and pop self-help sell like TONS.
something like the hippy movement may be? idk i wasn't there. if that's what happened when psychedelics got to the western mass... enlightenment for everyone for 3 bucks... everyone was dying for it. (i'm just going by H S Thompson here, tbh). it would be a total shit if we had that under supervision. something like psychedelic spas and clinics for everyone... for 3000 bucks!!! and then, as it is 'regularized', the average guy can't trip.
like what is already done with ketamine and ibogaine clinics. one ketamine infusion per week, 30mg or so IV... 900 bucks per session???? that's ridiculous. but people pay because they're desperate and need it. not criticizing the people, criticing the fucks who DARE to charge this amount... so if you promise a mystical cure for whatever at whatever price, there will be people buying it, and no you can't do it at home, you have to pay a ton and come to our clinic/spa to try LSD. shitttt
/rant
like, instead of them being easily, cleanly and safely available, they are instead monopolized and monetized. i really think they have potential for that. some greedy enterpreneurs exploiting desperate people in their mid-life crisis or something. don't people already pay tons of money to travel to South America and have Ayahuasca experiences? well, let me tell you, i live in South America where this shit is legalized and common BUT you can't go around and buy Chacrona nor Caapi. St. Daime churches have a monopoly on this kind of shit: you have to go to a church and stand up for hours and take bullshit from a random shaman if you want the experience. you can buy stuff like Mimosa and Harmala to make your own brew, but that's just because the guys at St. Daime don't even know it's the same thing 8) if they knew, they'd jump at it already.
everybody is like dying for the "light at the end of the tunnel", for some mystical, magical (and easy!) cure for all those existential problems and whatever. pop spiritualism and pop self-help sell like TONS.
something like the hippy movement may be? idk i wasn't there. if that's what happened when psychedelics got to the western mass... enlightenment for everyone for 3 bucks... everyone was dying for it. (i'm just going by H S Thompson here, tbh). it would be a total shit if we had that under supervision. something like psychedelic spas and clinics for everyone... for 3000 bucks!!! and then, as it is 'regularized', the average guy can't trip.
like what is already done with ketamine and ibogaine clinics. one ketamine infusion per week, 30mg or so IV... 900 bucks per session???? that's ridiculous. but people pay because they're desperate and need it. not criticizing the people, criticing the fucks who DARE to charge this amount... so if you promise a mystical cure for whatever at whatever price, there will be people buying it, and no you can't do it at home, you have to pay a ton and come to our clinic/spa to try LSD. shitttt
/rant