I’m unsure who is arguing against having fun with drugs. I agree that there are several “psychedelic advocacy” non-profits/businesses that solely push the medical narrative for their own benefit, but I haven’t seen their efforts detract from recreational use—it’s just not part of their plans for psychedelics.
I don’t see companies showing off the potential fun-ness of Xanax, Diphenhydramine, Dextromethorphan, or pharmaceutical opiates, but people like myself found fun with them (Dex actually changed my life by encouraging me to become a runner and dance to anything!).
Carl Hart has a point that the forced “psychedelic community” is drawing lines in the sand where there shouldn’t be any. We don’t need identities based on our drug of choice; we as humane people need to make all drugs more humane through better education, support and knowledge.
But I don’t see so much of Walker’s perspective that there’s a culture war against recreational drug use—particularly for the most common recreational drugs out there (mushrooms, LSD, ket). A subsection of profiteers just found another use for these recreational drugs. I personally haven’t seen these same profiteers argue that recreational use is bad—they seem to just avoid talking about it.
And while they don’t talk about it, we can still have fun with our drugs. I don’t have fun with moderate to high amounts of many drugs, and found that micro/minidosing psilocybin is actually super fun, so I stick with what’s good for me. Apparently microdosing for Dennis Walker is another ploy by the medical industrial complex; yet another line drawn in the sand.
I’m unsure who is arguing against having fun with drugs. I agree that there are several “psychedelic advocacy” non-profits/businesses that solely push the medical narrative for their own benefit, but I haven’t seen their efforts detract from recreational use—it’s just not part of their plans for psychedelics.
I don’t see companies showing off the potential fun-ness of Xanax, Diphenhydramine, Dextromethorphan, or pharmaceutical opiates, but people like myself found fun with them (Dex actually changed my life by encouraging me to become a runner and dance to anything!).
Carl Hart has a point that the forced “psychedelic community” is drawing lines in the sand where there shouldn’t be any. We don’t need identities based on our drug of choice; we as humane people need to make all drugs more humane through better education, support and knowledge.
But I don’t see so much of Walker’s perspective that there’s a culture war against recreational drug use—particularly for the most common recreational drugs out there (mushrooms, LSD, ket). A subsection of profiteers just found another use for these recreational drugs. I personally haven’t seen these same profiteers argue that recreational use is bad—they seem to just avoid talking about it.
And while they don’t talk about it, we can still have fun with our drugs. I don’t have fun with moderate to high amounts of many drugs, and found that micro/minidosing psilocybin is actually super fun, so I stick with what’s good for me. Apparently microdosing for Dennis Walker is another ploy by the medical industrial complex; yet another line drawn in the sand.
Great perspective! Here’s to fun!