Americans who had their most intense psychedelic experience on the Fourth of July later reported less support for partisan violence, a new study has found. People who took the same drugs during the 2024 party conventions or close to Election Day moved in the opposite direction, reporting more.
The result offers early evidence that the shared national mood around a trip, and not only a person’s immediate surroundings, can steer where it leaves them. With psychedelics now taken far more often outside clinics than inside them, that wider context could quietly tilt the outcome.
That’ll happen if you take psychedelics not on the 4th of July too. Heck it doesn’t even have to be July at all.
The article suggests that setting matters a lot, which pretty much lines up with my experience. If you want a productive trip instead of a regressive one, mindset and setting matter a lot. Just giving people shrooms, unfortunately, isn’t always enough for them to learn empathy.
“Hey lets trip balls and watch Fox News!” Hopefully no one ever!
One small study I gave shrooms to priests in training during some ceremony or other. All the trippin’ priests were still practicing some x number of years later, while many of the non-stoned priests found other lines of work.
Now imagine getting that study proposal past your Institutional Review Board in 2026.
With psychedelics now taken far more often outside clinics than inside them, that wider context could quietly tilt the outcome.
Was there ever a time where psychedelic were taken in clinics more often than not???
They might be thinking about the 40’s and 50’s in USA, after LSD was discovered. Even then there isn’t a lot of data about recreational psychedelic use at the time.
Lots of weirdly written things in this article. Either the writer is stoned, is AI, or both.
