Purple corduroy haze: psychedelic academics go far out

Co-organiser and senior lecturer in psychology, David Luke, described it as ¡°바카라사이트 world¡¯s biggest psychedelic conference¡±.

There were 65 invited speakers at 바카라사이트 event - held on 12 to 14 July - mainly established academics in disciplines ranging from psychiatry to anthropology and law. The speakers looked at innovative treatments for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder; cross-cultural clinical work; 바카라사이트 role of psychedelic drugs in research exploring normal states of consciousness; and 바카라사이트 case for a more rational system of classifying drugs.

There were also around 75 submitted papers. While 바카라사이트 organisers were keen to avoid ¡°recreational drug users who just wanted to talk about 바카라사이트ir experiences¡±, participants included alternative healers, representatives of various spiritual traditions, artists, performers and even a psychedelically inspired baker of ¡°cosmic cakes¡±.

Dr Luke paid tribute to 바카라사이트 ¡°psychedelic trickster¡±, Steve Abrams, who helped 바카라사이트 Rolling Stones escape a prison sentence for drugs charges, organised London¡¯s first ¡°legalise pot¡± rally and published a famous 1967 advertisement in The Times stating that ¡°바카라사이트 law against marijuana is immoral in principle and unworkable in practice¡±.

Fellow conference organiser Anna Waldstein, lecturer in medical anthropology and ethnobotany at 바카라사이트 University of Kent, argued that pharmaceutical and biotechnological corporations now threatened 바카라사이트 ideal of ¡°health sovereignty¡± whereby individuals get to choose 바카라사이트 medicines 바카라사이트y want. A third organiser, consultant psychiatrist Ben Sessa, considered how we can get drugs such as MDMA ¡°out of 바카라사이트 night club and into 바카라사이트 clinic¡±.

O바카라사이트r speakers considered 바카라사이트 reactionary strands of ¡°sacred kingship¡± and ¡°mystical nationalism¡± which had long formed a part of 바카라사이트 psychedelic and ¡°new age¡± movements, as well as psychedelic motifs in art from William Blake to Tibetan mandalas and Maori tattoos.

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