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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Psychedelics and who should be able to use them

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

On Point, News, Daily, Talk Show, Npr

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

When psychedelic drugs were banned by federal law in 1970, it ended a debate over who should have access to them. Now that debate has been reignited. Amy Lynn McGuire joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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This is On Point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

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By the time Timothy Leary uttered those famous words in San Francisco in 1967,

0:58.0

the former Harvard Psychology professor was already well known as the high priest of the psychedelics movement.

1:06.0

Leary and the rapid expansion in the popularity of psychedelic drugs had captured the world's attention by the mid-1960s.

1:14.0

In this moment, from a British documentary series called World Tomorrow,

1:19.0

Leary describes an LSD trip.

1:22.0

He's seated, cross-legged on the floor, as a child wearing a beaded necklace totals by.

1:27.0

There's a sense of being in communion with power is greater than yourself and intelligence,

1:34.0

which far strips the human mind and energies which are very ancient.

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