Trump's order on psychedelics

My CCHR buddies might be freaked out over the President's executive order fast tracking approval of psychedelic drugs. I myself have gotten used to the idea that this disaster is coming. It will be a disaster, but the only thing that can mitigate it is better fundamental understanding of people. As long as we harbor this false idea that a person is mostly a brain, we will continue to fiddle with brains in the hope that we can "improve" problematic people.

Psychedelic drugs are an effective way to dramatically fiddle with brains. They are not an effective way to help anyone or to do anything predictable with problematic people, but only to fiddle with brains. I can predict what the result of Trump's executive order will be: lots and lots of confusion and noise. The main thing psychedelic drugs do is confuse people. No one has figured out whether LSD is a medicine, a weapon or a sacrament, and it's been most of a century since Albert Hoffman's famous bicycle ride. 

Many people like the psychic "noise" these drugs seem to encourage. There was really good music in the 1960's. I think Jim Morrison's lyrics show the kind of confusion many of us liked back then, too. Things were too good, too successful, too predictable for adolescents. We needed adventure, and our parents were too afraid of communism and sexual immorality to let us have adventure. To them, "adventure" meant the Depression and world war. We of tender years didn't know the fears....

And then came Kent State, Charlie Manson and Jonestown. It seems to me that Donald Trump was around, and must remember all of this. He's a very strange man, though. I don't think he has the same view of history that I have. Why he (or anyone!) would expect improvement of the human condition to come from randomly mixing everything up is hard for me to understand. Trump has preternatural (delusional?) confidence in his own ability to know what's right and helpful for everyone, and he's certainly willing, right or wrong, to act. He thinks he has plans. I think he's an adolescent (that's passé, everyone says it).

Trump's order on psychedelics is the act of a bored or existentially panicked adolescent. Since he's President of the United States, it becomes the act of the whole world. It's dangerous, our adolescent world is dangerous right now. Teenagers usually survive though, so maybe the world will. The trick will be arranging just enough safety to give it time to learn and mature.

Arranging that safety means (to me), confronting psychiatry at every corner of humanity, stopping their epic violation of human rights and their epic insult to human dignity. Ban involuntary "treatment" and ban the insanity "defense." Eliminate the psychiatric slave plantations in Illinois and elsewhere.

Psychiatria delenda est! It's the only alternative.