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General inforamtion. Drug Saftey and influence. Erowid. Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) Vault. Cannabis (Marijuana) Vault. DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) Vault. LSD (Acid) Vault. MDMA (Ecstasy) Vault. Psilocybin Mushroom (Magic Mushrooms) Vault. Salvia Divinorum (Ska Pastora) Vault. The Blog : Drugs and the Meaning of Life. (Photo by JB Banks) (Note 6/4/2014: I have revised this 2011 essay and added an audio version. —SH) Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. Drugs are another means toward this end. One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting and for what purpose and which are not. However, we should not be too quick to feel nostalgia for the counterculture of the 1960s.

Drug abuse and addiction are real problems, of course, the remedy for which is education and medical treatment, not incarceration. I discuss issues of drug policy in some detail in my first book, The End of Faith, and my thinking on the subject has not changed. I have two daughters who will one day take drugs. This is not to say that everyone should take psychedelics.

(Pokhara, Nepal) Recommended Reading: Silk Road: The Website With Every Illegal Drug Imaginable For Sale.