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To: Neocon who wrote (77131)	4/7/2000 12:37:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Something like this, but more inclusive and less specific to a tribal (religious) tradition, would be a good thing imo. I am hesitant to embrace the term "prescription" because often drugs are prescribed with the typical Western attitude "take two of these and call me in the morning. (Subtext: In the meantime don't bother me; I'll be busy.)" That doesn't work well with inexperienced psychedelic users. But the "hospital setting" is worse imo. Some new tradition would be needed to give psychedelic ritual a place in our society. How to build such traditions? I have no idea. I think Kesey's in-yo-face approach backfired. And I think Leary's ultimately monastic withdrawal had the redolence of abdication. Society wasn't ready, and it was zealously kept unready by an alarmist media. Of course, that is my jaundiced synopsis of a much more complex situation, one that needs to be understood in the general social revolution of the 60s and the awesome ambivalence of the 70s.