How to get LSD, Psilocybin Mushroom, and other Psychedelics Legalized for Medical Use

The medical marijuana movement has been flourishing ever since Prop 215 passed back in 1996 in California. It has had a lot of bumps on the road and the feds have tried to stop the movement in its tracks. But one thing is for sure, by now medical cannabis is largely protected in the states and now a days the medical cannabis industry is thriving with few risks in those states that have it.

Looking to the success of the medical cannabis movement, I think it is about time the same approach is taken towards LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, and other psychedelics. After all psychedelics have been proven to be effective for many medical applications in thousands of peer reviewed scientific journals of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the new tests being done now as psychedelics come back to the lab into the scientific medical literature this past decade and continues to move forward. Medical uses for the major psychedelics include treatment of cluster headaches, alcoholism, near death anxiety, ptsd, pain killing at low doses, psychotherapy, and so on.

While our politicians often change policy to get votes and often times pay little attention to the facts, especially when it comes to drugs; I think the evidence is overwhelming to allow medical use of psychedelics that they can't ignore. There is currently no major social problem with psychedelics. Since they are non-toxic and especially non-addictive, it's not that popular for young people to use it recreationally like how it is with cannabis. So no teens forced in rehab campaign for LSD like how there was with Prop 19 and pot. The politicians should not be able to argue against the hard facts especially when psychedelics are far safer than most prescription medications as well.

I think the time is ripe to set some kind of prop 215 sort of situation with psychedelics like with cannabis. This might meet with some initial resistance from the fed, much like with cannabis. But I doubt this will be that big of an industry that will attract a lot of attention, mainly because most psychedelics have little appeal as common place recreation anyways. So it's not likely to become a big media story either, although I assuming there will be a lot of propaganda leveled against medical lsd and mushrooms in the media when it's trying to passed.

As people start to see that there are no real social problems with psychedelics at a medical level, that could possibly pave way to eventual and total legalization psychedelics, much like what is being done with cannabis right now. Although I do think any bill or proposition passed should initially focus on only the medical uses of psychedelics, because it is unlikely any bid to legalize recreational or even spiritual use would ever pass right now.

How can we get Medical LSD/Psychedelics passed into law? Assuming we start somewhere like California for instance, how can we put together such a law? Some of you should try contacting your local Representative and present the hard facts on psychedelics, and especially their medical value and how safe they are. Pester them till they accept the facts! MAPS and numerous other organizations around the world have numerous studies you can use. Perhaps get petitions signed (thinking that might not be as effective but who knows maybe the same was done with bud for a while).

Let's discuss how we can get this passed.

 

Not sure if I'd want it legalized.. maybe just decriminalized.
If it was open for the public, it'd be even easier to get and people who should not be doing psychadelics would be doing them because it would be so widely availible.
But I guess Medical usage wouldn't be bad either, seeing as it would be controlled, to an extent.. until people start catching on and going to get prescriptions when they don't really need them, which is bound to happen.
My plan : Spike the water supply of the world with LSD.. :sultan:

Haha, but anyways, I guess it'd just have to start small, and build our way up to legalization, decriminalization, or whatever it is we wish to happen. Our points can be easily proven, we just have to get them noticed in a larger scale of people.:afro:

 

I highly doubt that legal psychedelics would increase their use that much anymore than it is now. I think to an extent the psychedelic experience, despite how universal and more profound it is, is not a psychoactive experience most people like to experience or even find desirable. Illegality doesn't really effect supply all that much anyways, drugs like coke and alcohol will always be popular no matter how much you try to make them illegal because they are considered fun "up" drugs. Same with weed to an extent.

With that said, if people decided to switch from alcohol to mushrooms for instance this might be a good thing. There is no reason to keep lsd and other psychedelics illegal when they have been proven to be far safer and healthier than alcohol.

The only reason they won't pass legalization right now is that there is as active of a legalization movement with the psychedelics and not much money or effort is pumped to debunking the myths of psychedelics like lsd (the "acid madness" propaganda was probably stronger than even the "reefer madness" propaganda of the 1930s). Heck even recreational cannabis legalization hasn't passed yet.

Now that psychedelics are back in the laboratory and on the board for potential medical use, I don't see why such a medical law can't be realistically passed, especially in somewhere like California. It might be more formal than the medical cannabis bills since there is much less of a "recreational" element in psychedelics, but it still has a good chance of passing.

The law, trimmed down to example size, should look something like this,

"All Californians/MemberofXstate, upon recommendation from a doctor for the treatment of cluster headaches, pain, near death anxiety, alcoholism, obsessive compulsive disorder, other psychiatric conditions, or any other illness they can treat, can use serotonergic psychedelics such as lsd, mescaline, psilocybin mushrooms, and related compounds."

That's obviously just a sum up, the real proposition/bill will be quite a bit longer than this. But yes I don't see given the overwhelming amount of new evidence that is coming out all the time about psychedelics, why they can't make it into the discussion of medical use. Because this wouldn't be a bill to legalize recreational psychedelic use, it shouldn't have too much difficulty getting through a democratic (or libertarian republican) house or senate. LSD and psychedelics are "Schedule 1" so a law similar to the cannabis law should be passed (given that cannabis is Schedule 1 as well).

As far as people getting psychedelic recommendation they don't need. Well it certainly might occur at one point but I doubt it will be anywhere near the amount of people who do that already with cannabis recommendations. And due to the much more powerful nature of psychedelics I doubt doctors will be as willing to give recommendations as easy as they give with cannabis.

Well now that you mention it, acid water is certainly much healthier and more enlightening than the polluted fluoride/mercury infested water that urbanized populations are forced to drink.

Yup. That's the most important thing is actually getting started. Because as far as I have read and heard, the medical psychedelic movement is nowhere near the ballot box or legislative tables just yet. MAPS has talked about legalization and so have other researchers but their voice is not getting heard by the population at large or even the people who have the power to get this passed. Both the politicians and people must be educated at a large scale. Perhaps we should start with the politicians/our local representatives. But yeah eventually a mass de-programing of the masses should take place in what has occurred to an extent with cannabis.

 

I really like this idea, but I think it will sadly be a much more uphill battle compared to mmj.
It's incredibly absurd that we are still stuck using the Schedule system for our illicit substances because the idea came from Nixon, and we all know how "wise", "thought-out", and "trustworthy" he was. It's about time that we got that ridiculous system out of practice. Seriously! Amphetamines and cocaine are somehow less illegal than the mush and mellow and this blows my mind into the dumps