Mail-order Psychedelics?

What the hell is going on?

I was in Scotland a few months back meeting with members of the Scottish Psychedelic Research Group. One thing they brought up was the growing use of DMT vape pens by teenagers. That was a shocker for me. Scotland is years behind the US in terms of widespread social progressive movements related to psychedelic acceptance. The idea of 15-year-olds running around with DMT devices in the pocket of their jeans was hard to accept. I’m all for safe and affordable access but, at least for me, this is a bridge too far.

Over the past week I decided to see what was widely available for online purchase and delivery here in the good ole USA. It is all there. As long as you check the box that states you are over eighteen, in some cases twenty-one, it is all there for the asking. Mushrooms, LSD, DMT, 5-meo, and who know what else. No need to go to the dark web or pay with crypto. Just load up your cart, pay with a credit card, and the friendly mailman will bring it right to your door.

Congress has been unable to do anything with the fact that potent THC hemp extracted products are being legally sold to minors at gas stations. This is an unregulated market and we’ll soon see if there is the political will later this year to put even minimal regulations in place. Meanwhile there is no widespread public discussion at even more powerful substances being openly sold across state lines with no regulation at all.

I don’t know but maybe this is what always happens during prohibition. We are in strange times as psychedelics emerge from the shadows of the underground. Currently there are no controls over the online availability of the most powerful mind-altering substances on earth. It is a circus that can’t last forever and a crackdown is coming. The hammer will eventually fall on the online sales of Schedule 1 drugs. Hopefully it will not set back the current movement of research and appropriate use. I’ll let you decide what is “appropriate use.” We need safe access to psychedelics but we don’t need high schoolers with DMT vape pens in their backpacks. Sermon ends.