Can Taking Psychedelics Change Your Political Beliefs? It’s Complicated.

Will taking psychedelics turn you into a liberal hippie?

Evan Lewis-Healey

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“Turn on, tune in, and drop out.” Timothy Leary, the psychologist-turned-psychedelics-advocate spoke these words to 30,000 hippies gathered in Golden Gate Park in 1967. The now-iconic phrase became the motto of the counterculture movement of the…

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Evan Lewis-Healey

PhD candidate at Cambridge University. Studying the cognitive neuroscience of altered states of consciousness.