as threats to mental health they can hardly match the daily drivel assailing our thoughts through radio |
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"The grounds for any possible suppression of these medicines (psychedelic drugs) are almost entirely superstitious. There is no evidence for their being as deleterious as alcohol or tobacco, nor, indeed, for their being harmful in any way except when used in improper circumstances or, perhaps, with psychotic subjects. They are considerably less dangerous than many of the ordinary contents of the family medicine cupboard or kitchen closet. As instruments of power and inquiry they do not even begin to be as risky as X-rays, and as threats to mental health they can hardly match the daily drivel assailing our thoughts through radio, television, and the newspaper." Alan Watts, The Joyous Cosmology |
