hixidom said:
I'm surprised that 8th graders are using acid. Anyways, it's still a sad chart. LSD has the potential to be such a strong positive force for mankind...
Yeah, that's too young, but 8th graders use was the absolute lowest, which should be expected.
I was around 21 years old the first time I took LSD, I had experience with other psychedelics, but didn't manage to obtain confirmed legitimate D-lysergic acid diethylamide until my early 20s, though in the end I think this was a good thing, I was able to obtain so much more from the experience due to the knowledge and wisdom which I had accumulated over the years, but which was largely absent during my youth, age and wisdom actually enriched the experience.
And while I still maintain my grandiose dreams of making the psychedelic experience available FOR FREE to anybody who wants it, there would still be obvious limitations, and of coarse "any body who wants it" only applies to adults.
...those charts also depict the declining influence psychedelics are having on culture, these days most people only "know" about LSD and other psychedelics, and what they "know" is generally a clusterfuck of myth, prohibitionist disinformation, and misrepresentations in the media, people have this idea that they don't need to try LSD (or other psychedelics), because they "know" what that's all about, and that it's not for them...when in reality they know nothing at all, it would almost be better if modern psychedelic promoters had the benefits of promoting compounds without a complex history and mountains of myth and misinformation associated with them...
In this link
this lady knew nothing about drugs, and was given LSD in a research program, "I have never seen such infinite beauty" and similar statements were common, you see a person who experienced shamanic ecstasy, but lacked the language to articulate it. Normal people can have amazing transformative experiences, Only today these same types of people would never consider taking LSD or another psychedelic due to the history and general "knowledge" regarding the compounds in the public's mind. LSD and other psychedelic compounds have so many potential benefits, and not just for the individual but for the entire species.
I honestly think LSD is the logical choice if your aim is to give all people who want it free access to the psychedelic experience.
There was a group in San Francisco in the 1960s called "the diggers", they would hand out free food in golden gate park and ran the "free store" on haight street, which, yes, as its name suggests, it was a store where everything was free, clothing, shoes, backpacks, coats, blankets, these types of things could be obtained at the "free store" for free. The diggers would feed people behind a large yellow frame, and would give away yarn necklaces with a little wooden yellow rectangle connected to them, this was "the free frame of reference", in the case of the necklace, you were supposed to hold up your frame, and any object you could see passing through it you were supposed to ask "what if it were free?"...any object which fell into that frame you would ask "what if it were free?"
I've always loved these concepts...
It was this creative constructive independent social experimentation that was a product of large numbers of very educated young people taking LSD, not only did they share these novel ideas and philosophies, the acted them out on the real world stage...
And just as that graph is an ever downward drop reflecting LSD consumption, so drops the same amazing creativity and experimentation which it inspired...
It's not that LSD failed, the dominators more or less "got the lid back on the thing"...but at great detriment to themselves.
first they realized how dangerous it was to have a highly educated youth class, at which points colleges drastically changed how and what they taught, before colleges were places of open learning, encouraging inquisitive attitudes and empowering the individual. Now colleges are more or less trade schools, you go to class, fall in line, learn your skill, get your degree, the modern colleges have become trade schools...I also have my own conspiracy theory that all these "college party" films were released as a means to encourage those who go to college to expect it to bee a booze drenched fuck-fest between classes, they would rather have these people think college is a place to drink beer and party and get laid, rather than get involved, get educated, and change society.
Second, they launched a brutal war on psychedelic substances, including cannabis, which was already an illegal drug, it was illegal in all states by the mid 1930s, however, punishments were drastically increased during the same period when LSD and other psychedelics were scheduled, and this educated youth class was now arrestable and subject to lengthy prison sentences...
This is why I say, and I believe mckenna makes this point as well, though I could not find the mckenna transcription, it was at great detriment to themselves that the system managed to gain control over the situation...
...what's needed in modern times is the spread of knowledge, education must be promoted at all costs, and second free access to psychedelic substances, with focus on LSD, to anybody who wants them.
Modern people are dissatisfied yet generally are fairly ignorant, most people do mot know history, they do not even know the basics regarding how their own government functions, I'm being serious, go out on the street and ask people, they are clueless...lack of education is a major issue, and it's crucial to spread the works of the great thinkers throughout history, it's crucial to try to educate people, and to encourage a strong intellect...knowledge really does empower you, and your knowledge can be a weapon against those who seek to control and oppress you through maintaining your perpetual ignorance. Next what is crucial is exposure to psychedelic substances, these psychedelic experiences actually enhance our perspectives, they increase our empathy, they improve our intellect, and due to the principles of neuroplasticity we are actually able to recall and reuse these novel neuronal pathways that formed during the psychedelic experience, the psychedelic users brain literally has more neuronal pathways available to it, these psychedelic compounds also produce neurogenesis
Low dose psychedelics increase neurogenesis, help mice unlearn fear - Psychedelic Frontier but all of this is just scratching the surface...
I look at politics, and I look at society in general, and all I can think is that psychedelics could actually change this situation for the better, yet, as that graph demonstrates, LSD use rates are drastically falling, psychedelic use still remains the focus of an "in the know" community, and general statistics show psychedelic use has drastically decreased and continues to fall, a good deal of people are obtaining their firs psychdelic through research chemicals, though the use rates of psychedelics are still not increasing much, despite the research chemical market..
Large quantities of LSD need to be produced by skilled chemists, then given away for free to anybody who wants them, from coast to coast and across the globe... simultaneously we need to teach free classes, give away free books, and do all we can to educate one another, while also feeding all the people we can, give away your surplus food, buy food to distribute for free, even if it's spending $5 on some bread and penutbutter and giving away free sandwiches...
Ok, I'm done rambling, because this is all a day-dream any way...
...whoa, this was really long, I'm very tired, so I have not gone through to fix typos and errors, I'll edit this tomorrow.
-eg
