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For-profit psychedelics are unavoidable

For-profit psychedelics are unavoidable

Therapy in a capitalist market is always expensive—but do psychedelics need to be therapeutic to be legal?

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Derek Beres
Nov 08, 2021
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Late winter, 1995.

Alex and I are walking through Voorhees Mall, the center of the Rutgers University campus. We pause to paint a wall—metaphorically. Actually painting the side of Scott Hall would have landed us in a lot of trouble, especially in our current state of mind.

Besides, trouble was all around. We had each slipped two tabs of LSD under our to…

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