LSD - wonder drug.

Who has been responsible for taking away the wonder drug, LSD, from the people?

Here are the culprits:

1) Street-wise.
Despite its pretensions this social class is heavily influenced by medicine and the media and has misunderstood and bad-mouthed LSD for decades by its simplistic profiling of LSD - good trip/bad trip, fun/no fun.

2) Academia.
Ivory-tower academia is currently investigating another psychedelic - psilocybin (in the UK), for healing effects. Influenced by the pharmaceutical principles of their big business sponsors, researchers today wilfully ignore the research completed decades ago, and approaches made by past practitioners who stress the inapplicability of the drug/dose regimen for LSD/psychedelic use. As an academic elite, they also turn away experienced laymen. In its place they employ simplistic mind/body reductionism and physiognomic measurement tailored to meet their sponsor's requirements.

3) Medicine.
The medical model runs a program of pathologisation against natural human reactions. They are in part directed by the corporate-influenced DSM looking to profitable medication. Extreme reactions, often observed during LSD sessions, are immediately censured as illness (e.g. as the "schizophrenic" reaction).

4) Religion
The old Judeo-Christian tradition provides the West with its ethical standards of acceptable human behaviour and experience. It also provides the West with the social yardstick that we call "mental illness". Most of these experiences can occur during LSD sessions, and sometimes include experiences that can challenge religious belief and atheism.

5) The Law and the Judiciary
Punitive drug laws have always been the tool of choice in targeting minorities and immigrants: these are presented as the representatives of poor hygiene, laziness, dangerous practices and the moral corrupter's of middle-class youth.