The Psychedelic Policy Quagmire (eBook, ePUB)

Health, Law, Freedom, and Society
Redaktion: Ellens, J. Harold; Ph. D., Thomas B. Roberts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Edited by two preeminent scholars, this book provides coverage of the policy issues related to the increasingly diverse treatments, practices, and applications of psychedelics. Hallucinogenic substances like LSD, mescaline, peyote, MDMA, and ayahuasca have a reputation as harmful substances that are enjoyed only by recreational users committing criminal acts. But leading international researchers and scholars who contributed to this book hold that the use of psychedelic substances for health, religious, intellectual, and artistic purposes is a Constitutional right-and a human right. Based on that conclusion, these scholars focus on policy issues that regulate the use of psychedelic drugs in medicine, religion, personal life, and higher education, arguing that existing regulations should match current and anticipated future uses. This volume has two parts. The first surveys research on the use of psychedelic drugs in medicine, religion, and truth-seeking, following these topics through history and contemporary practice. The second section treats government policices that regulate the psychological, physiological, biochemical, and spiritual aspects of research and experience in these fields. The Psychedelic Policy Quagmire: Health, Law, Freedom, and Society challenges medical and legal policy experts, ethicists, scientists, and scholars with the question: How can we formulate policies that reduce the dangers of psychedelics' misuse and at the same time maximize the emerging diverse benefits?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216133568
• Artikelnr.: 68339832

Autorenporträt

J. Harold Ellens, PhD, is a retired university professor of philosophy and psychology, a retired Presbyterian theologian and pastor, a retired U.S. Army chaplain (Colonel), and executive director emeritus of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies. Thomas B. Roberts, PhD, is an emeritus professor of educational psychology at Northern Illinois University, where he taught Foundations of Psychedelic Studies as an Honors Program Seminar.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword by J. Harold Ellens Introduction by J. Harold
Ellens and Thomas B. Roberts Section I: Psychedelics, Medicine, Religion,
and Truth Chapter 1 You Have a Constitutional Right to Psychedelics:
Academic Freedom, Personal Conscience, and Psychotechnologies Thomas B.
Roberts Chapter 2 A Brief History of Psychedelics in Medical Practices:
Psychedelic Medical History "before the Hiatus" Ben Sessa Chapter 3
Continuing History of Psychedelics in Medical Practices: The Renaissance of
Psychedelic Medical Research Ben Sessa Chapter 4 Psychedelic Medicines
Michael J. Winkelman Chapter 5 Psychedelic Psychotherapy Near the End of
Life Charles S. Grob and Alicia Danforth Chapter 6 Do Drugs Have Religious
Import? A 35-Year Retrospect Huston Smith Chapter 7 Understanding the
Religious Import of Mystical States of Consciousness Facilitated by
Psilocybin William A. Richards Chapter 8 Pilgrimage to the Light? On the
Threshold of a Dream: Sacred Plants, Passionate Dedication to Ideals, and
Healing Richard Yensen Chapter 9 Ayahuasca and the Vines of Politics Danny
Nemu Chapter 10 Psychedelics as a Practice of Truth: A Foucauldian Argument
Pieter Stokkink Chapter 11 The Transpersonal, Psychedelics, and Mainstream
Psychology: Why the Wide Divide? James R. Fadiman Section II: Psychedelics,
Psychology, Rights, and Policy Chapter 12 Psychoactive Stimulation and
Psychoactive Substances: Conceptual and Ethical Considerations David Bryce
Yaden, Derek Egan Anderson, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, and Andrew B. Newberg
Chapter 13 Mindapps and the Neurosingularity Project Thomas B. Roberts
Chapter 14 Entheogenic Experience as a Human Right Martin W. Ball Chapter
15 Psychedelics and Criminality: A Possible Pathway to Reduced Recidivism?
Peter S. Hendricks Chapter 16 Plant Psychedelics in the English Courts:
Legal Uncertainty, Guinea Pigs, and "Dog Law" Charlotte Walsh Chapter 17
Therapeutic Hallucinogens: Altered State Laws for Altered States Mitch
Earleywine and Mallory Loflin Chapter 18 Changing Psychedelics Policy Neal
M. Goldsmith Chapter 19 The DEA: Four Decades of Impeding and Rejecting
Science Drug Policy Alliance and the Multidisciplinary Association for
Psychedelic Studies Chapter 20 Regulation of the Prescription Use of
Psychedelics Rick Doblin Conclusion Dear God, No More Committees! Thomas B.
Roberts and J. Harold Ellens About the Editors About the Contributors
Index