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Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads: Ismail Ali

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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The Dark Side of Psychedelics

I'm a person that believes that psychedelics tend to be highly attuned to their environment. I think one of the risks of kind of an unfettered, everything goes kind of framework is that you allow people to abuse and misuse the power that comes with access to psychedelics. And I do have concerns that without some groundwork, cultural, social, and so on, that they can and will be used to harm people as they currently are in some context.

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