Psychedelic drugs specifically of us to be and ecstasy and they use in the field of Mental Health care. The author recalls the early testing of the drugs, the leisure Recreational Use and the subsequent fan. He reports that today there is a reconsideration of Psychedelic Drugs to treat postTraumatic Stress disorder, ptsd, anxiety and addictions. This is about an hour and a half. Good evening and welcome it as a pusher to see you all here this evening and its a particular pleasure for me to welcome our guest of honor and speaker John Schroeder shroder. Its part of a particular. It was centered around at the miami herald in particular the magazine where tom was one of the principal editors. This is a moment and i know that we all succumb to the temptation that the older we get the better that we were but this was a moment where they had the likes of paul and Elmore Leonard and it was a moment of creativity and kind of daring editorial daring and it was a pleasure to be part of that at le
Forces. Um, and that was sort of my goal, my goal with the book. As far as the consumer thing, i just think, yeah, its very pervasive in our chul you cultu, and one of the counterarguments to the book has always been like, well, convenience. Amazon is convenient, and convenience is a consumer value, and i think we need to push back on that as something that, you know, underpins a lot of our choices and our activities. Right. And, frank foer, ill let you get the last word in on that. Right. We have that, we have certain expectations about the stuff that we get. And its shaped by the world that we live in and this marketplace. We expect that we should get everything as cheaply as possible and as efficiently as possibly. And to some extent those are tenets of capitalism. But they havent always been tenets of american political economy. There have been moments in our past, in our notsodistant past where we said, okay, its not necessarily the most important thing to get things as cheaply as