Terence McKenna viewed cannabis, psilocybin, DMT, LSD, and other psychedelics as “catalysts of intellectual dissent.” He wrote in The Archaic Revival (1991) that his assumption about psychedelics had always been that they were illegal “not because it troubles anyone that you have visions” but because “there is something about them that casts doubts on the validity of reality.” This makes it difficult, McKenna observed, for societies—even democratic and especially “dominator” societies—to accept them, and we happen to live in a global “dominator” society. Reset.Me For more on Terence McKenna and his views on why psychedelics are illegal, read Part 8 of the Tao of Terence by Tao Lin: vice/read/why-are-psychedelics-illegal-368
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