For over fifty years conservatives have viewed entheogenic drug use through a post-Sixties leftist lens as a fast track to madness and cultural chaos. For a generation of straight-laced right-wing boomer parents, the main lesson of the psychological and social horror they experienced in their youth was that future generations should definitely avoid any similar activity.
But this caution was only somewhat effective, and only partly true. Despite all the damage wrought by the mass use of LSD in the Sixties, psychedelic drug use began booming again about a decade ago and is now as popular as ever. This resurgence is tied to both an increased availability of entheogens themselves and the increasingly horrific state of Western culture since the middle of last century.
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