The Risky Business of Psychedelic Therapy
A hard look at commercial hallucinogenic retreats
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8 min readJul 15, 2019
On a Wednesday evening in March 2019, I stood in the basement of a budget hotel in central London as a former accountant named Arron used a wooden pipe to blow shamanic snuff into my nose. It was two short blasts: one for each nostril. The snuff was rapé, a traditional shamanic medicine originating from the…
