Therapeutic use of psychedelics seems a surety in the near future. But what framework for legal, personal use of psychedelics could you see being practical—that is, something that can be realized across the developed world, within our lifetimes?
This is important work that remains to be done. The Oregon initiative represents one good-faith effort to design a regime under which people (in Oregon) will have regulated access to psilocybin therapy. There are surely other experiments that will be tried. But the FDA drug approval process is only one path. There will also be a religious/spiritual path, in which new churches that use psychedelics as sacraments will seek, and probably win, constitutional protection, as the Native American Church and two ayahuasca churches already have. This is an exciting time for policy and legal innovation in this area.
Therapeutic use of psychedelics seems a surety in the near future. But what framework for legal, personal use of psychedelics could you see being practical—that is, something that can be realized across the developed world, within our lifetimes?
This is important work that remains to be done. The Oregon initiative represents one good-faith effort to design a regime under which people (in Oregon) will have regulated access to psilocybin therapy. There are surely other experiments that will be tried. But the FDA drug approval process is only one path. There will also be a religious/spiritual path, in which new churches that use psychedelics as sacraments will seek, and probably win, constitutional protection, as the Native American Church and two ayahuasca churches already have. This is an exciting time for policy and legal innovation in this area.