Part 1: Issue Research
Research Questions:
- Are Psychedelic a legitimate medicine?
- Why were Psychedelic disregarded and villainized.
- What are Psychedelic best in curing, preventing or fixing.
- What needs to be done to make psychedelics a mainstream medicine.
- Yes, psychedelics have uses in curing and preventing many different things from alcoholism to depression and everything in between.
- During the rise of psychedelics and their rise in the 1960s they were a promising new drug that was being tested with. The downfall of psychedelics can be attributed to two major things. The first and most significant was the association with the 60s counterculture and music and party scene. This got the drugs a bad rap with the onlookers being the public and the politicians. It was easy to associate the legitimate scientist with the “burning man” hippies. The second reason had to do with some of the things the researchers were saying. Most notable Timothy Leary (who conducted psychedelics studies), said things about the Vietnam War and psychedelics that tickled people in the wrong way.
- Psychedelics can be used on many different applications but it is still not known what it is most effective in some are hypothesized to be Alcohol addiction, Opiate dependence, Stimulant dependence, and depression.
- To bring psychedelics to justice and introduce them as a legitimate medicine much more testing by professionals that are and will be seen in a good light by people. They will also need to be further decriminalized and eventually legalized.
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Pollan, Michael. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Penguin Press, 2019.
Sessa, Ben, and Matthew W. Johnson. “Can Psychedelic Compounds Play a Part in Drug Dependence Therapy?” Cambridge Core, Cambridge University Press, 2 Jan. 2018, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/can-psychedelic-compounds-play-a-part- in-drug-dependence-therapy/514910FD07B84F71DC5099CCE76AA4E2/core-reader.
Pollan, Michael. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Penguin Press, 2019.
Sessa, Ben, and Matthew W. Johnson. “Can Psychedelic Compounds Play a Part in Drug Dependence Therapy?” Cambridge Core, Cambridge University Press, 2 Jan. 2018, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/can-psychedelic-compounds-play-a-part- in-drug-dependence-therapy/514910FD07B84F71DC5099CCE76AA4E2/core-reader.