Andrew M Weisse
Bestselling Author Norman Ohler on Drugs, Caves & Human History
I sat down with Norman Ohler, bestselling author of Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany and Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age, to explore a question that runs quietly through his work: the role of psychoactive substances throughout human history. Our discussion moved across time
The Psychedelic Morning Brief
💗 MDMA May Work Without the Mystical Experience Synopsis: A new analysis of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD found that mystical experiences themselves did not significantly explain improvements in PTSD symptoms. Instead, the strongest link was positive emotional states: feelings of joy, peace & love. My Take: This is important because
Why Psychedelics Make Some Relationships Better (And Others Fall Apart)
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: What happens when Psychedelics change the way you see the person you love. I wrote something about relationships that unexpectedly took off: The note wasn’t really about Greece, sharks, or
Psychedelics Can Just Be for Fun
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This Week: The quiet truth most people in Psychedelic spaces won’t say out loud: not everything has to heal, not everything has to be sacred, not everything has to justify itself. Sometimes
The Hidden Status Economy of Psychedelic Culture
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Psychedelics don’t end status games…they just make them harder to see. In The Status Game, Will Storr argues that humans inevitably play status games…almost always unconsciously. The forms
The Fight to Keep Alcohol at the Center of Culture
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Why the fight to keep alcohol at the center of culture has already lost. Tomorrow will be 8 years since I quit alcohol. Around this time each year, I think about
When Do Psychedelics Go Too Far?
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Injectable MDMA with injectable ketamine. Iboga, Bufo & mushrooms in the same weekend. Past-life certainty. At what point does exploration become escalation? A Few Recent Things Made Me Ask The
Who Gets To Decide The Right Way To Use Psychedelics?
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Why Psychedelic culture recreated the very hierarchies it claims to oppose. Psychedelic culture likes to think of itself as anti-system, anti-hierarchy & anti-status games. Spend enough time around
If I Were Starting Psychedelics Today, Here's Exactly What I'd Read
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: 6 rules I wish someone had given me before I started exploring Psychedelics. Every week I get some version of the same question: “Where should I start with Psychedelics?” It’s
The Life You Call “Normal” Was Designed
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: why what feels “normal” is just the result of constant inputs. Inspired by a recent piece from Aella on how cultural inputs shape expectation. Defaultland In Defaultland, people regulate being alive:
The Forgotten Psychedelics
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: A Tour Through the Psychedelic Graveyard. No, Ayahuasca isn’t calling you. It’s one of hundreds of psychoactive plants humans have used throughout history. The reason you’ve heard of