Perspective | Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new category for them
Culture, norms and laws are changing — but history says that demands an even bigger rethinking.
Hasnain says:
“As we redefine our society’s stance toward these fascinatingly protean substances, then, we should be mindful of their category-defying history.
�Psychedelics have been an integral part of human culture and experience since long before the concept of “drugs” even emerged. Perhaps one lesson of these mind-expanding substances is that to truly harness their potential, we will need to expand the ways we think and talk about them, too.”