In March 2025, I returned to the conference that sparked my plans for last summer. In Part 2, I describe the panel and its unexpectedly positive reception.
I’ve read a great deal of Devenot’s recent work over the past year, and I’m consistently struck by what feels like a complete lack of acknowledgment of the ongoing harm caused by the Schedule I classification of MDMA—particularly the trauma and boundary violations created through its enforcement mechanisms, primarily prison.
“We need to get this right,” she says, again and again.
That framing misses the point. We need to move forward. The perfect must not become the enemy of the good. We are only human, after all
The harms caused by prohibition can be addressed with decriminalization paired with better drug education. They do not justify medicalizing MDMA with a pseudoscientific therapy.
thank you for your work 👏👏
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I’ve read a great deal of Devenot’s recent work over the past year, and I’m consistently struck by what feels like a complete lack of acknowledgment of the ongoing harm caused by the Schedule I classification of MDMA—particularly the trauma and boundary violations created through its enforcement mechanisms, primarily prison.
“We need to get this right,” she says, again and again.
That framing misses the point. We need to move forward. The perfect must not become the enemy of the good. We are only human, after all
The harms caused by prohibition can be addressed with decriminalization paired with better drug education. They do not justify medicalizing MDMA with a pseudoscientific therapy.
Nes’e,
What is your personal use of psychedelics, what were they, how many times, and what is your personal beef with MAPS or Rick Doblin?
I’d like to know. Please reply as if I was a six year old.