<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeueArabic,Lora,Georgia,TazuganeGothic,serif;font-size:17px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"Enter psychedelics. In the past several years, the use of substances like MDMA, psilocybin, ibogaine and ayahuasca in treating the root of myriad health issues has become a white hot topic, with outlets from</span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-science-of-psychedelics-1525360091" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold"><i style="box-sizing:inherit">The Wall Street Journal</i></a><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>to<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.stripes.com/news/ecstasy-deemed-breakthrough-therapy-for-ptsd-1.485180" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold"><i style="box-sizing:inherit">Stars and Stripes</i></a><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>covering the so-called psychedelic revolution. In last year’s<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Really-Good-Day-Microdosing-Difference/dp/0451494091" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold"><i style="box-sizing:inherit">A Really Good Day:<span> </span></i><i style="box-sizing:inherit">How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life</i></a><i style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span> </span>,<span> </span></i><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Ayelet Waldman explored the benefits of ingesting tiny amounts of LSD. Michael Pollan’s new book<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence/dp/1594204225" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold"><i style="box-sizing:inherit">How to Change Your Mind:<span> </span></i><i style="box-sizing:inherit">What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence</i></a><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">looks at the emerging science of psychedelics. Once considered the realm of kooks, burnouts and that one ex boyfriend who spent a chunk of his 20s following Widespread Panic, psychedelics have hit the mainstream, because, as Carlin, Lourido Ali and many MAPS researchers argue, the mainstream desperately needs them.</span> "<br></span></div>

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeueArabic,Lora,Georgia,TazuganeGothic,serif;font-size:17px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeueArabic,Lora,Georgia,TazuganeGothic,serif;font-size:17px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div>“People are seeking meaning, purpose, personal growth, development, mindfulness and expansion, and there’s also a huge desire to heal,” says Carlin. “With psychedelics, we can sometimes borrow the courage to look at parts of ourselves we don't want to consider because they're not pretty. Psychedelics can also give us the inspiration to embody love and to celebrate. Humans need celebration.”</span>

<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj3ezm/psychedelics-are-going-mainstream-because-the-mainstream-needs-them">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj3ezm/psychedelics-are-going-mainstream-because-the-mainstream-needs-them</a><br></div></div>