A Leo here for actualized.org.

And in this episode I'm going to be talking about

correcting the stigma of psychodelics

part two. Part 2. Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience.

I make no apologies for it more people should do acid a quote from George Carlin

all right let's continue where we left off with part one.

If you haven't seen part one, go do that.

There I talked a lot about psychedelics and historical and cultural context

from all around the world. I also talked about the many

medical applications of psychodellics which are legitimate scientific and

clinically demonstrated medical benefits. In this part what I want to do is I want to start to

unravel this demonization, get at the heart of this stigma and to demonstrate that

first of all that it is there

because a lot of people are in denial about the fact that psychedelic

are stigmatized they think that no Leo

psychedelics are not stigmatized that's just how they are no it's a stigma and not only is it a stigma, but it's a deliberate stigma, which I want to show to you.

And then we're going to talk about why this stigma exists and what some solutions for it might be. So let's start with

this issue of the stigma actually being a conscious premeditated thing that society has constructed.

It's not an accident and there's some very good underlying reasons for why this is the case.

And what I want to present as evidence number one, this is perhaps the most

outrageous piece of evidence that I've ever come across in all my research.

It just blew my mind when I read this quote and I want to read to you because it's really amazing

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