The Psychedelic Ecosystem will have the best chance of ensuring access, establishing robust businesses, and mitigating existential risk by eschewing legalized consumer models and promoting psychedelics as medicine and enacting decriminalization measures.

What’s happening: In the 1970s, psychedelics were criminalized, effectively ending research into therapeutic uses. More recently, regulators have eased restrictions on psychedelic research, fast-tracking clinical studies and legitimizing the space.

As more and more people take psychedelics illegally, blindly moving themselves through a messy version of the 4 stages as best they can, there will be an increase in refusal.

Refusal to continue to accept the status quo, to continue to accept chronic unsafety, to continue to be governed and led by those most dissociated and themselves unconsciously... See more