PSA's Sunday Sound-Off: January 18th, 2026

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“When healing is approved, regulated, and sold back to us, we should ask who it’s really serving.”

I want to speak to something that’s been stirring in my chest for a while now. It’s uncomfortable. It’s not easy to name. But as someone who walks with reverence for the healing power of psychedelics, I feel a responsibility to say it out loud:

We are at risk of watching psychedelics—these ancient, sacred tools—become weaponized. Not through bombs or bullets, but through bureaucracy, branding, and control.

We are witnessing a psychedelic renaissance. And in many ways, that’s a beautiful thing. More people are finding their way back to themselves. Old wounds are being tended to. The conversation is shifting. But at the very same time, I’m watching something else rise in the shadows: power structures repackaging medicine in ways that serve their systems—not the people.

Let’s be clear: psychedelics have always been powerful. That’s why governments tried to suppress them in the first place. That’s why the CIA ran experiments like MK-Ultra. A desperate attempt to weaponize LSD and control the human mind—seeking to engineer the perfect, obedient killer. That’s why Indigenous wisdom keepers have protected their ceremonies with such fierce care.

What’s different now is that the control is quieter. More polite. More profitable.

Healing for Some, Not for All

Legal frameworks are starting to open, yes—but they are being written in ways that often exclude the very communities who held and protected this medicine long before clinics and corporations took notice. If you don’t have thousands of dollars, a clinical diagnosis, or access to a licensed provider, you may still be criminalized for working with the same plants that others are monetizing.

Healing shouldn’t be a luxury item.

And yet here we are, watching psychedelics be polished up, placed on shelves, and sold back to us in sterilized forms that fit within capitalist systems. It’s marketed as liberation, but too often, it’s just sedation. Take this medicine, feel better, go back to work. No need to question the world that made you sick in the first place.

From Sacred to Strategy

I also worry about how psychedelics are being positioned as tools for optimization, performance, and military “resilience.” When the focus becomes productivity over wholeness, or compliance over truth, we are no longer in the realm of healing. We are back in the logic of control.

We are seeing this creep into public discourse: microdosing to stay sharp. Therapy to tolerate trauma, not transform it. Psychedelics for CEOs and soldiers, but not for the marginalized or the mystics.

We must ask: Who benefits?
And who gets left behind?

A Call to Remember

This is not an article meant to sow fear. It’s a call to remember.

To remember that psychedelics are not inherently good or bad. They are amplifiers. They reflect the intentions, systems, and power structures around them. If we aren’t vigilant, they will be used to numb dissent, extract profit, and enforce conformity—all while being sold as “healing.”

But if we stay rooted in community, in truth, in reverence, then these medicines can still be what they were always meant to be: pathways back to love, to wholeness, to the sacred web of life.

We need more than safe access.
We need just, equitable, liberating access.
We need to protect the soul of this movement before it’s stripped of its spirit.

Staying Awake Together

Decriminalize Nature exists for this exact moment. We are a grassroots, people-powered movement rooted in a simple but radical truth: human beings deserve the self-agency to seek healing, explore consciousness, and reconnect with nature without fear of punishment. Entheogenic plants and fungi are not inventions of modern medicine. They are ancient allies that humans have turned to for millennia to heal the body, expand the mind, and remember our place within the living world.

Criminalization has done real harm. It has created stigma, cost people their livelihoods, separated families, and incarcerated individuals for engaging with plants that grow freely from the earth. Decriminalize Nature works to change that by not handing power to corporations or gatekeepers, but by returning it to communities. We believe in a bottom-up approach to change: empowering ordinary people, protecting Indigenous wisdom, preserving sacred ecosystems, and ensuring equitable access to these medicines for all—not just the wealthy or the clinically approved.

This movement is about more than substances. It’s about restoring our relationship with nature. It’s about shifting away from control, punishment, and extraction—and moving toward cooperation, reverence, and care. We stand at a historic crossroads in how we relate to the earth and to one another. Our entheogenic allies invite us to heal, to mature, and to remember who we are beneath the systems that taught us to forget.

If this resonates, stay close. Share your voice. Support grassroots action. Get involved locally. This is how paradigm shifts happen—by people choosing to stay awake together.

Let’s not sleepwalk through this moment. Let’s walk forward with eyes open, hearts steady, and feet planted firmly in sacred ground.

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Until next time,

The Psychedelic State(s) of America Team