Terrence McKenna, an ethnobotanist/authority on shamanism once said, “Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing.”

This is due to the fact that psychedelic drugs inhibit our hippocampal censorship mechanisms, which means they allow us to see things as they really are. Another reason psychedelics are dangerous to “The Man” is because they create a feeling of unity, and united groups of people are harder to control, just like we saw with the Dakota Access Pipeline.