I've worked with psychedelics in magical contexts for about eight years now. Not recreationally — as tools for sigil implantation, entity contact, that kind of thing. Chaos magic has always treated these substances as technologies, not sacraments. Peter Carroll wrote about this pretty explicitly back in the 80s.

But here's what bugs me about the legalization push: they're stripping the ritual framework entirely and packaging it as clinical therapy. Which, fine — if it helps people with treatment-resistant depression, I'm not going to argue against that. Stanislav Grof's work with holotropic breathwork demonstrated you can access these non-ordinary states without substances at all, and the therapeutic establishment largely ignored him for decades. Now they want the molecules but not the framework.

From a Jungian perspective, I think this matters. The Tarot card that keeps coming to mind is The Tower — radical dissolution of structure, ego death, contact with the unconscious raw and unfiltered. That experience needs a container. In traditional contexts, you had shamans, set and setting, years of preparation. In chaos magic, you build your own container through ritual design. What container does a 50-minute therapy session provide?

I'm not saying clinical use is bad. I'm saying it's incomplete. And I suspect some of these lawmakers pushing legalization don't actually understand what they're legalizing. They see "treatment for PTSD" and stop thinking there.

Honestly, my read is that the science is being used as a political vehicle, which is ironic given how long the same science was suppressed for political reasons. The actual phenomenology — the gnosis, the entity encounters, the ego dissolution — that stuff gets quietly sidelined because it doesn't fit the medical model.

Anyone else tracking this? Curious if folks here see clinical integration as a net positive or a dilution.