This is on point, I'm Magna Chakrabardi, and this is a special first-person drop for

you on point listeners.

As you might know, in our main show, we recently talked about the major resurgence of

interest and research in psychedelic drugs.

Because on January 1st, the state of Oregon became the first state to allow legal adult

use of psilocybin, aka magic mushrooms.

But it's only the latest in a big boom in non-medical and investor interest in psychedelics.

And by the way, those investors see psychedelics as a potential multi-billion dollar industry.

In the next few years, even though psychedelics remain a Schedule 1 federal drug.

Well, there's one group that's been looking on in dismay.

The indigenous peoples of the Americas have been using psychedelics for thousands of years.

Colonization and extermination ripped away their right to use psychedelics for generations.

Slow change began in the 1970s.

We were given the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978.

1978.

So, in 1978, my dad was born in 1928.

He passed away in 1977.

He served the United States Army in the Korean conflict.

Yet he served the United States Army.

He was not free to practice his way of life.

Legally until 1978.

Imagine that.

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