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PhD Evolutionary Biologist. Agroecologist. Affiliate Scholar, CPDRE. Politics and Ecology Editor🌿 @psymposia . Lecturer in Psychedelic Studies
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No amount of political and financial pressure can substitute for sound science. The future of the field of psychedelics is better for the FDA’s refusal to settle for less
Psymposia's official statement on the FDA's decision to reject Lykos Therapeutics' MDMA-assisted therapy application
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🧵
@HamiltonMorris
embraced his move from
@VICE
journalist, documentarian, and chemist, to chemist and
@COMPASSPathway
#corporadelic
PR rep. Using his
#WonderlandMiami
talk, where he trashed
@NeseLSD
and my work while we were
#Wonderbanned
, I’ll demonstrate what that means. 1/
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@RubinReport
@ChickfilA
@BenShapiro
still won't come to your anniversary party, Dave. This is unseemly
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@estevancarlos
@girlziplocked
This was the stated goal of visas for STEM workers according to a 1980 Department of Labor white paper
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JP recommending a neo-Nazi thread to his unsuspecting followers.
@ThoughtSlime
and
@psymposia
talk about JP, the far right, and psychedelics in a forthcoming episode.
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@shafisekalala
@bedouralagraa
@enzoriverss
"Those who are against fascism without being against capitalism, who lament only the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are people who want to eat the veal without slaughtering the calf." --Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
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@Empathetics
@estevancarlos
@girlziplocked
Nope, not my position at all. One of the many reasons I love science is diversity. Just contributing to a conversation about how the motives of capital apply to STEM just as much as in any other labor market
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I’m happy to share new work on how hype works to mythologize, market, and institutionalize psychedelic-assisted therapy (P-AT) to fit a neoliberal medical paradigm that prioritizes profit above all else. In collaboration with
@JDaviesPhD
and
@NeseLSD
. 1/
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@chiefzager
@AP
We've been hearing from chuds for years that BIPOCs only get into schools because of diversity quotas and then the rich are doin this all day and calling it meritocracy
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Happy to share my open-access collaboration with
@NeseLSD
on Right-Wing Psychedelia for
@FrontPsychol
. Contrary to recent assertions, we show that psychedelic experiences of interconnection can be assimilated by authoritarian, hierarchy-based ideologies.
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@chiefzager
@AP
Pretty wild considering your occupation, law enforcementaside--would anyone need your services if they could just buy rank?
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@TuckerCarlson
Didn't your bosses argue in court that no reasonable viewer would take you seriously...and win?
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THREAD Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris is a neuroscientist whose work has made valuable contributions to the field of psychedelic science--which is why it’s disturbing to see him recommending reactionary psychologist
@jordanbpeterson
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Hey
@MicrodoseHQ
is it common practice to ban attendance of industry journalists and fellow organizers of psychedelics conferences? Asking for a friend.
@SashaSisko
@diterpene
@NeseLSD
@RussellHausfeld
@D__Nickles
@Yarelix15
#WonderlandMiami
Welcome to Miami (Will Smith, 1997)
Unless you're a persona non grata, that is.
Mr. Mouse is wondering, which member of the Microdose team made a macro misstep by leaving this "BANNED FROM ALL EVENTS" sheet out for all to see?
- Mr. Mouse
#WonderlandMiami
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@jordanbpeterson
@jordanbpeterson
Treating
@TuckerCarlson
as if he is an actual journalist with any credibility whatsoever speaks volumes about your own.
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Morris called our work “absurd,” lamenting that more people weren’t criticizing it. Conspicuously, he avoids addressing our main points at all: psychedelic utopian fantasies fail to account for all the fascists & right-wingers who (have) take(n) them 7/
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1/ Anthony Matturro, man behind a mushroom account, leans deep into transphobia and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracism. Several leaders in psychedelic research have lent credibility to Jordan Peterson, perhaps the most influential anti-trans bigot of our time.
#rightwingpsychedelia
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Call for Papers!
Psychedelic Capitalism: From Forest Retreat to Fortune 500 and Pharmacies. This special issue of History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals--the Journal of
@HistPharm
--will be guest edited by
@NeseLSD
and myself. Many thanks to
@LucRichert
!
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We actually say “...contemporary commentators should be skeptical of claims that psychedelics lead to any specific, essentialized outcomes—including the recent claims about psychedelics increasing environmental concern and liberal politics.” (Pace and Devenot, 2021) 10/
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New piece. Strange as it may seem, those adhering to right-wing politics haven’t just established a beachhead in the psychedelic renaissance—they’re maneuvering to own it.
#corporadelic
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Morris isn't dumb. These are intentional (if sloppy) distortions. Hamilton is a PR representative of COMPASS. When he speaks publicly about psychedelics, this is part of his job description. He is also a chemist. 13/
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The cynicism on display here is profound. Morris may get some crumbs for dutifully repping COMPASS, but in using his celebrity to smear journalists and academics, keep in mind that the mission he serves is unequivocal support for psychedelic monopoly. 16/
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I should note that how much money any
#corporadelic
firm makes, including COMPASS, is highly dependent on whether or not a privatized psychedelic future–one in which Morris could not be more invested–becomes policy. On this matter, policy is sensitive to public opinion. 14/
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The (tangential) point we make using this study is that experiences of gratitude, interconnection, and awe are compatible with, not antithetical to, authoritarianism. Morris claims we use it to argue “psychedelics make us vulnerable to authoritarian thinking.” This is false. 9/
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Morris called a piece on our work “insane,” acting as if our message was an alarmist warning that right-wingers use psychedelics, not a rebuttal to the claims of
@RCarhartHarris
& co that psychedelic use makes less authoritarian, more liberal people. 6/
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The way this is written, "unwanted online contact" (read: public debate, journalism, and scholarship) is conflated with protecting "physical safety." Categorically untrue.
#Wonderbanned
#WonderlandMiami
We’ve issued a response to the small issue at Wonderland. Please find our full statement here:
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“When you’re a journalist, you don’t even need to say something, people are barely reading stuff beyond the headlines to begin with. So if you just gesture toward an idea, people will run with it.” Hamilton Morris is counting on you not reading. fin/
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Then, he laments media that troubles psychedelic capitalism, such as articles written by journalist
@Shayla_Love
for
@vice
, a former employer they both share. He omits her piece where she interviews us and engages thoughtfully with our ideas. 3/
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@HireMeImFunny
@TomiLahren
When the state takes a person into custody, they are a legal ward of the state, period.
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Usona Researchers Test Psilomethoxin
“Our findings revealed no evidence to suggest that the compound psilomethoxin is present in samples of material that the church is offering to their members online.”
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@mattyglesias
In political science terms, liberalism is the ideology of both democrats and republicans.
@dbessner
is using it in this sense
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@MsShade
Nicely done. You might find an open letter we wrote to those proposing psychedelic therapy as a "cure" for mental illness interesting:
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Early in his talk, Hamilton subtweets a force he is tellingly careful not to invoke by name:
@psymposia
Managing Editor
@D_Nickles
, co-host w/
@LilyKayRoss
of Cover Story: Power Trip: “Find the others and accuse them of commodifying the sacred to assert your moral superiority” 2/
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People should be aware that the political and financial clout being thrown
@psymposia
and
@icer_review
right now can only be mobilized by the deep pocketed investors currently panicking about getting a return on MDMA-AT. This is not a grassroots campaign—it's textbook astroturf.
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🧵Jordan Peterson is a demagogue who has been been courting psychedelic leaders. JBP was booted from this very platform for transphobic bigotry. I argue you’re friendly with the guy, that does in fact reflect on your character and views.
#RightWingPsychedelia
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Psychedelic researcher RCH describes his forthcoming contribution to Jordan Peterson's podcast: "hope you enjoy & don’t cancel me for doing 😘 🌎 ✨"
#RightWingPsychedelia
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Calling us “anti-veteran” is cynical and incoherent. I am the son & grandson of veterans. Another beloved veteran member of my family lives with a PTSD diagnosis from their tour of duty.
@WeHeroicHearts
is targeting my colleagues while doing grunt work for billionaires & Pharma.
Veterans deserve the highest quality treatment for PTSD. It’s unacceptable and dangerous to use veterans as guinea pigs for a big pharma profit grab without resolving safety and efficacy concerns.
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Here, Morris takes for granted one of the conclusions of our work, while dismissing the impetus for it: a slew of overly optimistic pieces claiming psychedelics can “save the world,” stemming from peer-reviewed research. Pushing back has been an uphill battle. 5/
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Later, Morris addresses our work more directly. “Then of course the ever-present threat of right-wing people using psychedelics, uh, uh oh,” he giggles, “what are we gonna do? Right-wing people use the same drugs as left-wing people? I had no idea!” 4/
Hamilton, the appropriate forum to air your (many) grievances with our peer reviewed work is with a scholastic offering of your own. I'd tag you, but I can't. I'm detecting a less-than-collegial pattern with
#WonderlandMiami
.
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@TomiLahren
Hey, if a police officer can kill a citizen for holding a gun then is it a 2nd Ammendment right or a 2nd Ammendment privilege?
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@beccalew
Loved your report! I linked to it in this piece I wrote that made a bunch of people mad:
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The Wall Street Journal including photos of MDMA pressies depicting cryptofash symbols is a little too on the nose.
#rightwingpsychedelia
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From here flows the pharmacological extinction of pain. And some pretty excellent bagels.
microscopic image of a germinating poppy seed
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This paper would not have been retracted if it were not for the tenacity of
@SashaSisko
.
Wow! The meta-analysis of the six phase II trials of MDMA-AP has just been retracted.
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Hamilton, the appropriate forum to air your (many) grievances with our peer reviewed work is with a scholastic offering of your own. I'd tag you, but I can't. I'm detecting a less-than-collegial pattern with
#WonderlandMiami
.
Hamilton Morris is reportedly referring to my research with
@brian_pace
as "insane" at
#MicrodoseMiami
while we are banned from the event. We stand by our analysis about the dangers of mixing psychedelics w/ authoritarianism & money at a time when fascism is increasing globally.
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For more on how financial incentives warp the public discourse about psychedelics, see
@NeseLSD
et al.'s paper, "Dark Side of the Shroom" 15/
Published today: "Dark Side of the Shroom: Erasing Indigenous and Counterculture Wisdoms with Psychedelic Capitalism, and the Open Source Alternative," which I wrote last year with Richard Doyle (author of "Darwin's Pharmacy") & Trey Conner. A thread 🧵 /1
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On major
@COMPASSPathway
investor, right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, Morris is similarly dismissive in his characterization of our work “...so Peter Thiel, something, something, something, something, so we’ve all gotta be real careful.” Indeed. 12/
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This seems like an appropriate time to mention that
#WonderlandMiami
speaker RCH resorted to this after my
#ICPR2022
presentation which which critiqued the robustness of his findings. If he thinks we're wrong, showing us all how and where in a refereed rebuttal is good faith.
This is absurd - if you want to win hearts and minds, don’t block, mock, or ban your critics. Hear them out, reconcile.
@shayla__love
is astute, balanced, and careful - any moralizing in her articles comes from critics - like me - concerned about precisely this behavior - smh
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🧵1/ I wish I could say I was surprised by a psychedelic luminary cozying up to right-wing demagogue JP, but I'm not.
@DennisMcKenna4
, we wrote about JP's support for race science. I asked you to read it this May in the UK. Here's the link:
"
@jordanbpeterson
and Dr. Dennis McKenna discuss the science behind psychedelics, the entities found through the looking glass, the current pharmaceutical approach to long life, and why it needs to change."
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In lieu of critique, he mocks a psychological experiment we cited, not deigning to argue against it before dismissing it. The only real assertion Morris made here was in his delivery of the subject, stating “I’m not making this up.” Abstract for those interested 8/
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#Wonderbanned
where the cops are used as enforcers while the mouthpiece of a $250 million+ multinational corporation proceeded to snicker at our work and trash other critical journalism. We talk about power in
#corporadelia
because this is how it is being used
#WonderlandMiami
#Wonderbanned
: Dr. Joseph Lichter addresses the decision by
#WonderlandMiami
organizers
@MicrodoseHQ
to secretly ban academics and journalists with diverging views, saying this “is not a responsible way forward in the psychedelic space.” 1/11
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Having read it, I endorse
@doctorow
's review. "The David's" fresh look at history has real utility for the current moment. We can live as we do now on the precipice of world war and climate collapse, but we can no longer argue against the idea that another world is possible.
We've lost so much to the pandemic. Every day I wake and think of all the lives snuffed out, all the plans smashed, all the stories never told. I think about poor
@davidgraeber
, whom I spoke with just a few weeks before his sudden death in Sept 2020.
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"The existence of harms should be treated as evidence that the ethical safeguards have failed; passing IRB should not be used as a tool to discount harms."
A sane response from an institution in the drug policy reform space. Read it 👇
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"This strategy of pushing the cultural narrative around psychedelics rightward — from “Drop Acid Not Bombs” to “Drop Acid to Better Drop Bombs” — has clashed with many long-term psychedelic advocates less aligned with U.S. militarism." 🔥
@RussellHausfeld
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3/ Some alliances preclude others. If
@RCarhartHarris
or supporters of JP somehow also believe that trans people are valid and full members of the psychedelic community, I invite them to explain their position in the replies.
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"Clearly, the only way psychedelics will be accepted by the masses is if they're carefully controlled and administered by trained medical professionals in proprietary clinical settings. Anything else is just irresponsible. In this exclusive investor pitch I will be outlining..."
Andy Cohen is trying to peer pressure Anderson Cooper to drop acid live on CNN looool
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Christian Angermayer of atai Life Sciences retweets and cosigns a defense of anti-vaxx candidate RFK by ousted white nationalist Tucker Carlson. He shared the stage with Rick Doblin at the ongoing
#PsychedelicScience2023
#rightwingpsychedelia
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The most laughable thing about recent attacks on
@psymposia
and
@icer_review
is being called "anti-MDMA". My prediction to the FDA AdComm was "Harms and misconduct will scale if [Lykos is] allowed to train and certify therapists."
It's not about the MDMA.
.
@christianamusk
I always love me some
@reason
and
@reasonfdn
. And, I really like this piece by
@ferenstein
. Not for what it says--nothing remarkable or original--but what it doesn’t say: Not once does it talk about FDA approving MDMA-AT, MDMA-PAT, MDMA "assisted therapy" or
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Always with the Amanita muscaria in mass media pieces on psilocybe species. You'd think they'd want the right mushroom
Why is the American right suddenly so interested in psychedelic drugs?
"...a substance as powerful as psychedelics can be dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands"
Captures some of the work by
@NeseLSD
and
@brian_pace
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Dan and Elon are in fact wrong about my organization and this entire situation.
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Very excited to welcome
@NeseLSD
to share her experience and insight with students at The Ohio State University next semester! If you know students who might be interested in digging in to thorny but important topics in psychedelia, please let them know (and retweet!).
Dr. Devenot is teaching a Psychedelics Bioethics class at OSU this Spring semester.
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@PeterSjostedtH
@calyxlaw
Psychedelics are available to anyone willing/able to risk buying on the black market, international travel, cultivating, or gathering them. The problem of access is prohibition. The solution is decrim, not
#corporadelic
enclosure
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4/ Trans people are unequivocally a part of the psychedelic community
@JourneyswithD
. Influential people in the psychedelic community shouldn’t be normalizing bigotry--no matter how sophisticated or ambiguous the rhetoric.
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Morris did not even approach good faith with our analysis that psychedelics are compatible with authoritarian worldviews: “and we all know that Jordan Peterson used a psychedelic, blah blah blah,” Meanwhile: 11/
🧵1/ I wish I could say I was surprised by a psychedelic luminary cozying up to right-wing demagogue JP, but I'm not.
@DennisMcKenna4
, we wrote about JP's support for race science. I asked you to read it this May in the UK. Here's the link:
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This is a straw man, but it's revealing that the
@psilocybinOR
dismisses
@Psymposia
's work. Psymposia wants scientifically sound medicine for services marketed as such. With psychedelic therapy, we have not met that standard. 1/
@SashaSisko
@ReillyCapps
@doubleblindmag
@RussellHausfeld
Because
@Psymposia
is just always angry at everyone. They don't want corporations involved in psychedelics, but they also don't want the underground involved. What is it they want?
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Thanks to
@Chill_Goblin
and everyone who contributed to making this animated video featuring work by me and
@NeseLSD
! Loved the shout outs to
@psymposia
,
@LilyKayRoss
&
@D__Nickles
'
#PowerTrip
New Chill Goblin vid! Turn on, tune in, drop your weapon and come out with your hands up, we’re taking a look at the politics of psychedelics. Do drugs make people more leftist? No, not really. Find out why, or just check out all the trippy stuff I drew!
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2/ It’s uncontroversial that JP made his fame claiming trans people’s pronouns were a domino theory-level threat to freedom of speech. He was also wrong--but he’s still famous and wildly influential.
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Maybe Jan 6 rioters do need love, but drugs aren’t gonna fix their politics. The idea that
@lucidnewssite
thinks that psychedelic masculinity is going to "continue what
#MeToo
started" while they say nothing about Power Trip is...galling
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Excellent piece by
@msmacb
"Although many psychedelic-therapy advocates were disappointed by the decision, the move could actually prevent serious harm to those seeking treatment—and ultimately help secure a safe future for psychedelic-assisted therapy."
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@ndrew_lawrence
As and evolutionary biologist, I know "diversity" is our "strength" as the starting material for adaptive evolution, a process necessary for the continued existence of all life on earth. So there's that.
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@BeckleyResearch
please stop amplifying nonsense.
@RickDoblin
has already confirmed at least one psychedelic therapy recipient has returned to active military duty.
"Widespread
#psychedelics
therapies could fuel a social movement, in which men put their bodies into the gears of the war machine to stop it. We have to unscrew war heads from missiles, melt tanks into playgrounds, paint flowers on battleships."
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Being lectured about my privilege by a venture capitalist is new for me; I'll give him that.
@NeseLSD
The dominant field is actually a cocktail of antidepressants that often don't work for many people in need. Perfect is the enemy of good & Lykos's approach was far from perfect, but it would have been really good for many people who don't have the same privilege as your group.
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Guerilla Nazi propagandist; psychedelic mushroom cultivator/distributor.
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THREAD: One of the hazards of doing accountability journalism is that people, organizations, and their supporters often don't appreciate the value of said work. There is only one
@psymposia
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If I type into my URL bar, it redirects me to the
@MAPS
homepage. The actual URL for
@psymposia
ends with .com (which I had forgotten).
Does this happen for anyone else? Am I wrong for being a little weirded-out by it, given the whole
#PowerTrip
thing?
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Passiflora spp: Stunning, turns into tart passion fruit, grows in the continental USA, many species contain MAOIs. What's not to like?
I feel like no one ever asks men what their favorite flowers are. What’s your favorite flower, guys?
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
--President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, WWII.
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"Lykos...why is it called that?"
"No reason."
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6/ Peterson expressed his belief in a racial intelligence hierarchy (a view repudiated by a consensus of human geneticists) while chatting with white nationalist Stefan Molyneux.
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As I am currently too tired to produce more words, I am grateful that I can share Rev. Welker's instead. Yes.
The FDA decision on Lykos' MDMA application is bittersweet at best, especially for those who do need treatment for treatment resistant PTSD. The decision is also entirely justified and I believe the right one.
Rick Doblin and MAPS openly treated the FDA process with so much
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@LilyKayRoss
has said “As long as the work I am doing afflicts the comfortable and comforts the afflicted, I’m good with that.” So are we. If you support fearless, nonprofit, accountability journalism, please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. 8/8
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Here's a recent tweet from Peterson. Armed fascists are surrounding drag events across the US. They came to Columbus, Ohio 10 days ago and intimidated the LGBTQ into cancelling a similar event at a church. This is what demagoguery looks like. But go on and chat about Jung. 7/
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If this review paper can make it into JoPS, perhaps my
@psymposia
colleagues and I aren't comicbook villian wreckers who don't want us to have nice things.
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@AmeriBev
Whatever you spent designing this ad campaign should have been spent on hazard pay, better insurance, and PPE
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12/ Ferris and RCH’s tacit welcoming of JP to the psychedelic community isn’t calm neutrality--it’s unexamined philosophical baggage that poisons the field for trans people. To close, Dr. Jae Sevelius’ exploration of this territory is extremely relevant:
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