JustAnotherHuman said:
Maybe for the budding psychedelic researcher, being quiet about your interest in psychedelics is the way to go, but for ordinary people, I really think being open about your use of psychedelics is a good thing. If using psychedelics benefitted you, then why not talk about it?
This is just my personal opinion though.
Progress of human civilization in the area of defining human freedom is not made from the top down. No king, no parliament, no government ever extended to the people more rights than the people insisted upon. And I think we've come to a place with this psychedelic issue. And we have the gay community as a model, and all the other communities, the ethnic communities. We simply have to say, Look: LSD has been around for fifty years now, we just celebrated the birthday. It ain't going away. WE are not going away. We are not slack-jawed, dazed, glazed, unemployable psychotic creeps. We are pillars of society. You can't run your computers, your fashion houses, your publishing houses, your damn magazines, you can't do anything in culture without psychedelic people in key positions. And this is the great unspoken truth of American Creativity. So I think it's basically time to just come out of the closet and go, "You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud, and if that's a problem for you then fella, you git a problem! -terence McKenna
...and I agree with McKenna here. I feel this is likely the message you were attempting to convey, no?
I do agree here.
Viceland is a television station, and between shows they will have these excerpts where it will.show an individual, and it will show their job, and it will show how productive they are in society, and at the end it will say "...and I smoke weed" this is exactly the type of behavior that McKenna said was needed, and I'm happy to see that others have realized this.
...culturally, this is what is needed, it's time to quit hiding our stash and bowing our heads in submission and say "we use these compounds, and there is nothing wrong with that" we need to control the narrative regarding psychoactives, however, we must be very cautious...
In the 1960s, we thought that all that had to happen was - everybody would take LSD and the obvious right things to do would be done. We expected no opposition to this because it’s rightness was so obvious. We didn’t realize that every righteous crusade in history has marched into the waiting jaws of its oppressors.
-terence McKenna
So we must be careful, you must realize the percieved threat that these compounds present to culture as a whole, while most will claim.the desire change, you must remember that actual change is often feared and resisted, actual change threatens the stability of "business as usual"...
That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. -morpheus;the matrix
So there must be a strange balance...
We need to be mindful and courageous, we must not be careless...
In the Middle Ages, the church forbade dissection of human bodies, and medical students would visit battlefields and the gallows at night, and steal the bodies of victims of war and executed prisoners, in order to learn human physiology. Where that spirit of scientific courage has gone, I don't know; but there is very little of it left. Now, people feed at the trough of government grants and enormous corporate research budgets, and the idea of actually pursuing truth, or attempting to understand the phenomenon in an unbiased fashion, divorced from its commercial, social and political dimensions, is unheard of. -terence McKenna
I speak about psychedelics everywhere I go, I am constantly promoting these things, but I am very mindful about how I do it. I always dress nice, generally in a suit and tie. I'm sure to speak in an educated and intelligent fashion, and I tend to stick to chemistry, phenomenology, pharmacology, and so on, its always fairly academic aspects of these molecules...
In a lecture, an audience member asks terence McKenna "why are you not in jail?" And McKenna answered:
Notice that I use big words. I don’t try to boil it down to a shoutable slogan, like turn on, tune in, drop out? Uh-uh, that—then they come, they come. So that’s one possibility—that, simply, if you are defined in their eyes as an intellectual, then they automatically put you in the harmless category and send resources elsewhere.
Terence Mckenna
-eg
Dr Rick Doblin always talks about "coming out of the psychedelic closet" and I think that this is soooooo important for us psychonaughts, to tell people about the benefits we receive from these entheogens and contribute, albeit in our own little way, to changing people's perception on psychedelics. Rick also talks about "psychedelic dinners" and I think that this is a fascinating idea. 
