With UCI and other programs, psychedelics soon could be as controversial as aspirin

Pillheads, Rejoice: There's a New, Improved Ecstasy

This rare good news item is taken from VICE magazine, v29n2: THE REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL ISSUE. To subscribe to four print issues each year, click here. Looking back at the last 40 years of Western culture, you’d have to say that MDMA has made a pretty big impression. The love drug has sired several moral panics, at least one generation gap, a global youth movement, thousands of rave babies, and innumerable anecdotes that get wheeled out whenever…

With UCI and other programs, psychedelics soon could be as controversial as aspirin

Usually, it’s impossible to say exactly when an idea, particularly a culturally fraught one about handshake drugs and mental health, makes the leap from fringe to mainstream. But usually isn’t always. And when it comes to the notion that party drugs like mushrooms, ecstasy and LSD should become non-party drugs – legally regulated treatments for a range of mental health woes – the leap might be happening right now. UC Irvine said last month that …