Psychedelic Policy Quagmire

J. Harold Ellens, PhD, is a retired university professor of philosophy and psychology, a retired Presbyterian theologian and pastor, a retired U.S. Army chaplain (Colonel), and executive director emeritus of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies.Thomas B. Roberts, PhD, is an emeritus professor of educational psychology at Northern Illinois University, where he taught Foundations of Psychedelic Studies as an Honors Program Seminar.

It is inevitable that this book will be a catalyst for lively and robust debate. Recommended to academics and researchers in various fields, including psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and the arts, this work should challenge many long-held assumptions about these fascinating substances.

• Series Editor's Foreword by J. Harold EllensIntroduction by J. Harold Ellens and Thomas B. RobertsSection I: Psychedelics, Medicine, Religion, and TruthChapter 1 You Have a Constitutional Right to Psychedelics: Academic Freedom, Personal Conscience, and PsychotechnologiesThomas B. RobertsChapter 2 A Brief History of Psychedelics in Medical Practices: Psychedelic Medical History "before the Hiatus"Ben SessaChapter 3 Continuing History of Psychedelics in Medical Practices: The Renaissance of Psychedelic Medical ResearchBen SessaChapter 4 Psychedelic MedicinesMichael J. WinkelmanChapter 5 Psychedelic Psychotherapy Near the End of LifeCharles S. Grob and Alicia DanforthChapter 6 Do Drugs Have Religious Import? A 35-Year RetrospectHuston SmithChapter 7 Understanding the Religious Import of Mystical States of Consciousness Facilitated by PsilocybinWilliam A. RichardsChapter 8 Pilgrimage to the Light? On the Threshold of a Dream: Sacred Plants, Passionate Dedication to Ideals, and HealingRichard YensenChapter 9 Ayahuasca and the Vines of PoliticsDanny NemuChapter 10 Psychedelics as a Practice of Truth: A Foucauldian ArgumentPieter StokkinkChapter 11 The Transpersonal, Psychedelics, and Mainstream Psychology: Why the Wide Divide?James R. FadimanSection II: Psychedelics, Psychology, Rights, and PolicyChapter 12 Psychoactive Stimulation and Psychoactive Substances: Conceptual and Ethical ConsiderationsDavid Bryce Yaden, Derek Egan Anderson, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, and Andrew B. NewbergChapter 13 Mindapps and the Neurosingularity ProjectThomas B. RobertsChapter 14 Entheogenic Experience as a Human RightMartin W. BallChapter 15 Psychedelics and Criminality: A Possible Pathway to Reduced Recidivism?Peter S. HendricksChapter 16 Plant Psychedelics in the English Courts: Legal Uncertainty, Guinea Pigs, and "Dog Law"Charlotte WalshChapter 17 Therapeutic Hallucinogens: Altered State Laws for Altered StatesMitch Earleywine and Mallory LoflinChapter 18 Changing Psychedelics PolicyNeal M. GoldsmithChapter 19 The DEA: Four Decades of Impeding and Rejecting ScienceDrug Policy Alliance and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic StudiesChapter 20 Regulation of the Prescription Use of PsychedelicsRick DoblinConclusion Dear God, No More Committees!Thomas B. Roberts and J. Harold EllensAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex