Decriminalization Of Psychedelic Drugs

Psychedelic drugs include LSD (acid), MDMA (ecstasy), psilocybin mushrooms, DMT, salvia, ayahuasca, ketamine and mescaline. Psychedelic drugs have been around and used for thousands of years for religious, therapeutic, and recreational use. However, the use of psychedelic drugs have been stigmatized for people who turn to them as a medicine. There are untouched medical benefits that drug classification is keeping away from us. These drugs can assist people suffering from mental health problems like PTSD, anxiety, psychedelic drug users depression, alcoholism, and addiction in a variety of ways. We should decriminalize and legalize psychedelics for medical use, because there is strong research and proves there are many ways people can benefit

Albert Hoffman was the first person to synthesize, ingest, and study LSD between 1938-1943. LSD was introduced as a medicine named Delysid for various psychiatric uses in 1947. In the 50’s, LSD was being researched for its use in psychiatry. In the 60’s psychedelics, mostly LSD, became widespread and was used in the hippie counterculture. The people associated with LSD that contributed to highttend use in the 60’s would be groups like The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and other psychedelic rock bands. Psychedelics.com says, “Within the history of psychedelics, LSD use became a symbol of youthful rebellion, mind exploration and political dissent on college campuses across the United States.” This widespread and sudden use caught the attention of federal and state governments, and the made LSD illegal in

This stigma is generally passed down generations and people seem to believe that drugs are bad because that is what they were taught-there is no basis beyond why. The stigma stems from the fact they are a Schedule 1 drug in the United States. This means the U.S. Government sees no medical uses and has a high potential for abuse, and are unsafe. Other schedule 1 drugs are heroin, marijuana, and cocaine. This contradicts the findings however of the study by Johansen and Krebs. The step to be able to use these psychedelics as medicine is that they need to lose their