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Greetings from cyberdelic space.

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

And today we're going to get to listen to, well, a few more talks from the 1992 Psychedelic Summit that was held in Santa Cruz, California.

And by the way, where were you in 92 when LSD was about to turn

50? Now, this session begins with Rick Doblin introducing Dr. Lester Grinspoon. And as you know,

here in the salon, we're doing what we can to preserve the historical record of the psychedelic

movement during the second half of the

20th century.

Today, it's, well, it's easy to kind of overlook how tense and difficult it was to even discuss

these substances back then.

My guess is that many of those in attendance at this talk were more than a little paranoid about

simply being there. And as difficult as it may be to believe, well, we've actually made a lot

of progress in winning this war on people who use non-prescription drugs. As you know, Dr. Grinspoon achieved

legendary status many years ago as one of the very

few academics who spoke favorably about psychedelics. For 40 years, he acted as senior psychiatrist

at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and he was also Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry

at Harvard Medical School.

And if you were around at the beginning of this so-called War on Drugs, you remember him

as an outspoken hero of our community, not just your average psychonaut.

Now, other speakers in this podcast include Donna Dreyer, Richard Jensen, Myron Stoleroff, Willis Harmon, Ralph Abraham, Rick Doblin, and Robert Anton Wilson.

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