Self medication: dr Leary never advocated for it, in fact he went to congress to advocated for the regulation of LSD as a therapeutic agent, meaning it had to be managed as a pharmaceutical, he even explicitly told that a-hole Kennedy, that if a black market ever erupted it would a thousand times more dangerous than whatever side effect it’s therapeutic use could have.
Bad trips: lsd is not unique, pretty much any dissociative substance in the wrong setting (like getting arrested for possession) can cause PTSD ... and even psychosis
Propaganda: LSD and MDMA are currently being studied as therapies for depression and PTSD with encouraging success, same way fentanyl can be deadly in the wrong hands, dissociative agents can mess someone up
Personal responsibility: LSD is a substance, things cannot make decisions or be responsible for action. Unless your friends were held at gunpoint and forced to take the substances, their fate is their doing ... not everyone survives life unscathed. Somehow you survived ... you made better decisions ... they didn’t
But Timothy Leary absolutely did call on the normal general public to drug itself. Before him, drugs were in the shadows.
You have not forgotten his famous statement, "Turn on, tune in, drop out."
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"...is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967, Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out".
That sure was not a call for medical research.
My friend who still feels the effects did not have BAD trips, they just keep coming back unbidden even now.
My dead friend, who knows.
That psychotic girl was at a minimally respectable party. Any other kind, she would not have been at. Hashish being present there was a result of the hippie drug culture, invented by Timothy Leary.
He wasn't the only one but he was Harvard. Nobody else was Harvard. Without his Harvard credentials, the whole thing might have stayed in the shadows.
Oh I see ...
Self medication: dr Leary never advocated for it, in fact he went to congress to advocated for the regulation of LSD as a therapeutic agent, meaning it had to be managed as a pharmaceutical, he even explicitly told that a-hole Kennedy, that if a black market ever erupted it would a thousand times more dangerous than whatever side effect it’s therapeutic use could have.
Bad trips: lsd is not unique, pretty much any dissociative substance in the wrong setting (like getting arrested for possession) can cause PTSD ... and even psychosis
Propaganda: LSD and MDMA are currently being studied as therapies for depression and PTSD with encouraging success, same way fentanyl can be deadly in the wrong hands, dissociative agents can mess someone up
Personal responsibility: LSD is a substance, things cannot make decisions or be responsible for action. Unless your friends were held at gunpoint and forced to take the substances, their fate is their doing ... not everyone survives life unscathed. Somehow you survived ... you made better decisions ... they didn’t
All true.
But Timothy Leary absolutely did call on the normal general public to drug itself. Before him, drugs were in the shadows.
You have not forgotten his famous statement, "Turn on, tune in, drop out."
Cut and paste:
"...is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967, Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out".
That sure was not a call for medical research.
My friend who still feels the effects did not have BAD trips, they just keep coming back unbidden even now.
My dead friend, who knows.
That psychotic girl was at a minimally respectable party. Any other kind, she would not have been at. Hashish being present there was a result of the hippie drug culture, invented by Timothy Leary.
He wasn't the only one but he was Harvard. Nobody else was Harvard. Without his Harvard credentials, the whole thing might have stayed in the shadows.