Psychedelic drugs have always been known as the drugs of the hippies and free spirited, used in a way for one to escape reality by heightening all sense of the body and drifting off into other states of the mind. These drugs being banned for more over 40 years in the United States and all over the world due to their history of abuse and madness it can cause with its mind altering effects. However, this hasn’t stopped the ideas and movement of bringing psychedelics back into the world of medicine. Scientist from all over the world are experimenting with these drugs and seeing that they have a positive and beneficial effect on different types of mental illness. A Norwegian group of psychedelic advocates are pushing to have drug polices that have
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It was rigid, sterile, homogenized, consensus-driven, and conservative. American and British cultures valued the respect of tradition, religion, and conforming. Conforming was a major part of 50’s, and society in the western world promoted uniformity. Young people’s futures were shaped by their parents, restricted by society, and an individual’s ability to find and express him or herself and voice an opinion was limited too. On top of this, the world was still recovering from World War II, other violent unrest, and in American the draft was still valued. This restlessness, materialism, conservative cultural and social norms made people, mainly the youth, question their way of life. A youth movement emerged from this in the early 60’s, seeking ways to express themselves, to create an egalitarian society free from discrimination, which required them to rebel and break free from mainstream conservative society. The youth of the counterculture movement of the 60’s entered a new world, and they found a new way to open the mind and see the world in a different way. Andy Roberts, in his book Albion Dreaming, argues, “New ways of thinking and living were being discovered as users threw off their old lives and entered the world of LSD.” [3] Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) helped break through old conservative cultural and social values to pioneer and became one of the reasons why the old ways of thinking and living could be challenged. LSD’s counterculture created a new and open mainstream culture by creating a cultural revolution that led to new ways of self-expression and exploration, such as music and the arts, which were seen as rebellious through mainstream society’s eyes. LSD tested cultural values by being the catalyst for young Americans and Brits to initiate change and question traditional lifestyle
It was rigid, sterile, homogenized, consensus-driven, and conservative. American and British cultures valued the respect of tradition, religion, and conforming. Conforming was a major part of 50’s, and society in the western world promoted uniformity. Young people’s futures were shaped by their parents, restricted by society, and an individual’s ability to find and express him or herself and voice an opinion was limited too. On top of this, the world was still recovering from World War II, other violent unrest, and in American the draft was still valued. This restlessness, materialism, conservative cultural and social norms made people, mainly the youth, question their way of life. A youth movement emerged from this in the early 60’s, seeking ways to express themselves, to create an egalitarian society free from discrimination, which required them to rebel and break free from mainstream conservative society. The youth of the counterculture movement of the 60’s entered a new world, and they found a new way to open the mind and see the world in a different way. Andy Roberts, in his book Albion Dreaming, argues, “New ways of thinking and living were being discovered as users threw off their old lives and entered the world of LSD.” [3] Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) helped break through old conservative cultural and social values to pioneer and became one of the reasons why the old ways of thinking and living could be challenged. LSD’s counterculture created a new and open mainstream culture by creating a cultural revolution that led to new ways of self-expression and exploration, such as music and the arts, which were seen as rebellious through mainstream society’s eyes. LSD tested cultural values by being the catalyst for young Americans and Brits to initiate change and question traditional lifestyle