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A little thought. I personally don’t think much of psychedelic therapy. I think therapy will do more for psychedelics, than psychedelics will do for therapy. What I mean to say by that is: therapeutic use of psychedelics, like medical use of marijuana, is just a stepping stone to legalization for totally free use - at which point the issues with therapy pricing will most likely dissolve. It’s just a stepping stone.

MDMA and the other entactogens I believe will be the main contributors to psychotherapy, because they fit in well with that model. I don’t think therapists are going to use psychedelics with the same level of success, mostly because truly successful use of psychedelics is shamanic, and shamanic practices are not going to find their way into therapists’ offices because they’re too magical, and the skills too inaccessible. Maybe next century, sometime after psychedelics are legalized fully, it’ll crop up after shamans become more prevalent in day to day life, and it receives some study. Until then I 100% absolutely support the medicalization of psychedelics and don’t give the slightest shit about corporate profits because I don’t think they’d be able to use these things properly anyhow even if they had the best intentions. It’s just another step to legalizing psychedelics and entactogens and decriminalizing all drugs generally, and hopefully legalizing a select few hard drugs to be given out for free for addicts.

War is Hell, and the war on drugs is ongoing. Fortunately, when it comes to psychedelics, the drugs are winning. Unfortunately, with the hard drugs, the drugs are also winning. I’ve lived in societies that are largely hard drug free, and let me tell you, I am saddened that the cat’s out of the bag on that one and won’t be going back in - ever. But drugs won the war - all of them. From here on out it’s just figuring out how to proceed through the cultural denial, like reassuring a dementia patient with bullshit lie after bullshit lie (oh we just want medical marijuana, oh we just want to do therapy, oh we just want to try an opiate dispensal project as a social experiment, oh we just want onnnnne, maybe two safe injection sites….). In BC in Canada drugs are still criminalized, but they basically just choose not to enforce the laws because everyone understands it’s pointless. It’s just gonna be a long muddled process that won’t always be ideal, but is indeed underway.

<blockquote data-quote="OneIsEros" data-source="post: 3906465" data-attributes="member: 37513">A little thought. I personally don’t think much of psychedelic therapy. I think therapy will do more for psychedelics, than psychedelics will do for therapy. What I mean to say by that is: therapeutic use of psychedelics, like medical use of marijuana, is just a stepping stone to legalization for totally free use - at which point the issues with therapy pricing will most likely dissolve. It’s just a stepping stone.MDMA and the other entactogens I believe will be the main contributors to psychotherapy, because they fit in well with that model. I don’t think therapists are going to use psychedelics with the same level of success, mostly because truly successful use of psychedelics is shamanic, and shamanic practices are not going to find their way into therapists’ offices because they’re too magical, and the skills too inaccessible. Maybe next century, sometime after psychedelics are legalized fully, it’ll crop up after shamans become more prevalent in day to day life, and it receives some study. Until then I 100% absolutely support the medicalization of psychedelics and don’t give the slightest shit about corporate profits because I don’t think they’d be able to use these things properly anyhow even if they had the best intentions. It’s just another step to legalizing psychedelics and entactogens and decriminalizing all drugs generally, and hopefully legalizing a select few hard drugs to be given out for free for addicts.War is Hell, and the war on drugs is ongoing. Fortunately, when it comes to psychedelics, the drugs are winning. Unfortunately, with the hard drugs, the drugs are also winning. I’ve lived in societies that are largely hard drug free, and let me tell you, I am saddened that the cat’s out of the bag on that one and won’t be going back in - ever. But drugs won the war - all of them. From here on out it’s just figuring out how to proceed through the cultural denial, like reassuring a dementia patient with bullshit lie after bullshit lie (oh we just want medical marijuana, oh we just want to do therapy, oh we just want to try an opiate dispensal project as a social experiment, oh we just want onnnnne, maybe two safe injection sites….). In BC in Canada drugs are still criminalized, but they basically just choose not to enforce the laws because everyone understands it’s pointless. It’s just gonna be a long muddled process that won’t always be ideal, but is indeed underway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OneIsEros, post: 3906465, member: 37513"] A little thought. I personally don’t think much of psychedelic therapy. I think therapy will do more for psychedelics, than psychedelics will do for therapy. What I mean to say by that is: therapeutic use of psychedelics, like medical use of marijuana, is just a stepping stone to legalization for totally free use - at which point the issues with therapy pricing will most likely dissolve. It’s just a stepping stone. MDMA and the other entactogens I believe will be the main contributors to psychotherapy, because they fit in well with that model. I don’t think therapists are going to use psychedelics with the same level of success, mostly because truly successful use of psychedelics is shamanic, and shamanic practices are not going to find their way into therapists’ offices because they’re too magical, and the skills too inaccessible. Maybe next century, sometime after psychedelics are legalized fully, it’ll crop up after shamans become more prevalent in day to day life, and it receives some study. Until then I 100% absolutely support the medicalization of psychedelics and don’t give the slightest shit about corporate profits because I don’t think they’d be able to use these things properly anyhow even if they had the best intentions. It’s just another step to legalizing psychedelics and entactogens and decriminalizing all drugs generally, and hopefully legalizing a select few hard drugs to be given out for free for addicts. War is Hell, and the war on drugs is ongoing. Fortunately, when it comes to psychedelics, the drugs are winning. Unfortunately, with the hard drugs, the drugs are also winning. I’ve lived in societies that are largely hard drug free, and let me tell you, I am saddened that the cat’s out of the bag on that one and won’t be going back in - ever. But drugs won the war - all of them. From here on out it’s just figuring out how to proceed through the cultural denial, like reassuring a dementia patient with bullshit lie after bullshit lie (oh we just want medical marijuana, oh we just want to do therapy, oh we just want to try an opiate dispensal project as a social experiment, oh we just want onnnnne, maybe two safe injection sites….). In BC in Canada drugs are still criminalized, but they basically just choose not to enforce the laws because everyone understands it’s pointless. It’s just gonna be a long muddled process that won’t always be ideal, but is indeed underway. [/QUOTE]