Huxley – Brave New World
And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts“.
It’s not a coincidence that politicians of all stripes but especially those of the right are much happier to progress psychedelics that can be manufactured and engineered rather than an unpredictable plant that reflects the natural world
Marijuana Moment
A Democratic congressman says psychedelics are now “way ahead” of marijuana in terms of federal legislative momentum—and he’s criticizing former President Joe Biden for not doing enough to advance meaningful cannabis reform before the end of his term last month.
Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA), chair of the Congressional Psychedelics Advancing Therapies (PATH) Caucus, told Marijuana Moment in an interview at the Capitol on Wednesday that he agreed with the idea that psychedelics are increasingly taking precedent over cannabis—with bipartisan lawmakers continuing to advance reform to tap into the therapeutic potential of drugs such as MDMA and psilocybin.
Marijuana is another story. While the congressman has long advocated for ending cannabis prohibition, he pointed out that “we’ve been working on cannabis—what, thirty years?” without seeing substantive results.
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