Behaviour Quote by Terence McKenna

I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize…

— Graham Hancock

I will never understand why weed and psychedelics are illegal

— Anonymous

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious…

— Terence McKenna

I don't really advocate for psychedelics. I don't really think anybody needs to do them, or has to do them. For me, they were…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

— Terence McKenna

The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been…

— Humphry Osmond

“Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all…

— Terence McKenna

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

— Stanislav Grof

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

— Timothy Leary

What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a…

— Terence McKenna

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the…

— Ray Manzarek