Now, being a psychedelic enthusiast as I am, I tend to take an interest in all things concerning the subject, and one arena of psychedelics that I've always found "off", are the legal/public/social perspectives. On the surface everything appears normal, psychedelics are powerful, mind altering "drugs". Seeing as people are entirely irresponsible with such things, they should be illegal just like all the other powerful, mind altering drugs-- cocaine, heroin, meth, etc. The attitude seems to be, "they're all the same, these hard, strong drugs that people can't handle, a danger to society, etc." but this is the only place where I can find a relationship between psychedelics and the rest of the hard drugs. We're so eager, collectively, to lump these substances in with everything else we don't understand and thus fear, yet when it comes right down to it, this is really the only time and place any of us really makes and effort to relate the two, so I'm calling bullshit, this just doesn't add up!
Why should psychedelics be treated like all these other substances that they have nothing to do with, especially when it seems clear to me that none of us, even those with no clue what psychedelics are all about, really even believes it? Or more specifically, why do the various world governments want psychedelics to be illegal, yet stop short of treating it the same way they do the other scheduled substances? I think its a scam! I think what's really going on is that the way psychedelics are being treated strikes me as a real anti-drug use policy, where the way amphetamines, opiates, etc. are treated strikes me as self-contradictory bullshit. I think all these things are illegal so the public doesn't try to differentiate between them, but the substances that the powers that be really want us to stay away from are obscured and forced out of the public's conscious awareness. And I think the reason for this is clear, they don't want us to use psychedelics, but they're perfectly happy to see new crack addicts.
I say the treatment of psychedelics seems like a real "anti-drug use policy" because with the exception of legality, psychedelics are treated the same way things like cannibis are treated in places where its legal. It simply doesn't get any attention, and therefore it won't be used as much. You see the same thing in places like Amsterdam and Portugal where these things are legal. It is because they're legal that they aren't glorified and they aren't the focus of the publics attention, and therefore they aren't in high demand. Whereas the treatment of hard, addictive substances is way more tounge in check. Sure, they'll make it illegal and tell you not to do it, but at the same time they'll push all the social propaganda they can to get you to want it.
The formula is rather simple. Equate psychedelics to hard, physically addictive, and dangerous substances, then focus the public's attention on the substances that are obviously harmful. Of course they know full well people are going to try these things, so the effort is to focus the public on what they want us using, and try to ignore as much as possible what they don't want us using. If one wanted to take this one step further, all you would need to add is the fact that cocaine and heroin are government subsidized and psychedelics are not. With few exceptions, we're not seeing large amounts of mushrooms being smuggled, we're not seeing peddlers slinging DMT on street corners, we're not seeing LSD labs being busted in the main stream media. Yet every day we hear about the problems crack is causing in inner cities, about South American guerillas producing large amounts of cocaine, about the opium boom in Afghanistan, and about the meth epidemics in the south and midwest states of the US.
One of the places this can be seen the most clearly is with enforcement policies such as drug detection. The big 5 when it comes to drug testing are cocaine, heroin, cannibis, methamphetamine, and amphetamines. For the most part this is a completely worthless effort with the exception of cannibis, because most of these substances metabolise so quickly. Though it depends on the test, many of the saliva test only detect cannibis for up to 24 hours after your last hit. What good is that? The same substances are what K9's are trained to go after too. But why aren't tests commonly made to detect LSD? Why aren't dogs commonly trained to trigger on mushrooms? So you don't think about LSD and mushrooms, that's why. Otherwise, you may be made curious to them and be tempted to learn about or try them. It's almost as if the message is intended to be, "Yea, LSD and mushrooms are illegal, but no one in their right mind would have anything to do with them, so we won't bother looking for them. But everyone loves coke, we really have to check for that."
So in conclusion, I think we're being subtely encouraged to use the substances that are known to destroy life, and I think we're being guided into self-induced amnesia regarding psychedelics. I know this begs the question, "Yes, but why?" Sorry, I'm leaving that one up to the imagination for now.
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