SXSW 2025
Psychedelic Outlaws: Hope, Deceit & Survival
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Psychedelic Outlaws tells the gripping story of how a group of ordinary people debilitated by excruciating pain developed their own medicine from home-grown psilocybin mushrooms. The book explores not only the fascinating history and exploding popularity of psychedelic science, but also a regulatory system so repressive that the sick are forced to find their own remedies.
Who are the outlaws when regular people use illegal drugs to escape brutal pain, while respected institutions plunder for profits and prestige?
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Takeaways
- Outlaws are changing medicine. While psychedelic scientists get the credit, much of their research depends on innovation from the illegal underground.
- Outlaws use psychedelics to survive medicine’s failures. People break the law to find relief because medicine ignores proven solutions to their pain.
- Psychedelics have revolutionized headache medicine. Existing treatments are less effective versions derived from classic psychedelic substances.
Speakers
- Joanna Kempner, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
- Bob Wold, Executive Director, Clusterbusters
Organizer
Kevin Lenaburg, Policy Director, Clusterbusters
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