Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
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Re: Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
#2Dismissing possible negative effects of psychedelics with a comparison to caffeine and nicotine feels off. Psychedelics are much more intense than either - on a different scale, to the point they are emotionally draining. Otherwise, I can dig it. There are a variety of factors.
Re: Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
#3War on Drugs, Charles Manson, Nancy Reagan.
Re: Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
#4War on Drugs, Charles Manson, Nancy Reagan.
And, they were the drug of choice of hippies, which were targeted by conservatives in government.
Can't have any mind expanding going on in the population.
Also. Kind of like how cocaine was a 'white' drug and criminal sentences were less than for 'crack' that was a 'black' drug and had stiffer penalties.
The groups using a particular drug were attacked through the laws against specific drugs.
Re: Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
#5“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?
We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
Re: Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
#6Dismissing possible negative effects of psychedelics with a comparison to caffeine and nicotine feels off. Psychedelics are much more intense than either - on a different scale, to the point they are emotionally draining. Otherwise, I can dig it. There are a variety of factors.
Operating vehicles on psychedelics seems like a far worse idea than the other two as well. But comparing them to alcohol would probably have alcohol coming up far more dangerous in every category.
Re: Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
#7This is not a difficult question to answer: The War on Drugs (which includes a massive propaganda campaign.)
Re: Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
#8Dismissing possible negative effects of psychedelics with a comparison to caffeine and nicotine feels off. Psychedelics are much more intense than either - on a different scale, to the point they are emotionally draining. Otherwise, I can dig it. There are a variety of factors.
I don't want to try it because of risk to my mental health. The 40+ year old psychedelic enthusiasts I know are just not all there. Plus it can trigger schizophrenia, etc.
Re: Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
#9Because they were made illegal in the 1960s?
Re: Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
#10“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we…
Even the popularization of the latin name Marijuana (Mary Jane) was to associate cannabis with latin American immigrants. In Spanish it's mostly called marihuana or mariguana.