An anthropologist, a lawyer, and a neuroscientist’s response to Michael #Pollan:
"While Pollan’s points about ensuring safe use are important #harmreduction concepts, and it is true that people #selfmedicating without guidance or using #psilocybin #recreationally can be disorienting, it ignores the fact that, in the United States there is already a widespread culture of #psychedelic drug use that, for the most part, follows #reasonable guidelines already."
An anthropologist, a lawyer, and a neuroscientist’s response to Michael Pollan In an opinion piece to the New York Times commenting on Denver’s recent historic vote to decriminalize psilocybin, Michael Pollan claimed that “Debate is always a good thing, but I worry that we’re not quite ready for this one,” referring to the decriminalization of psilocybin. It’s disappointing to read such a conservative piece from somebody who has so powerfully advocated for the value of psychedelics in his influential book, “How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Penguin Random House, 2018). In
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