John McMahon
1 min readMar 9, 2020

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I hate to tell you this, but enviromental advocacy is just like any other. You’ve got to raise money, create an administrative structure, do a lot of marketing, and lobby lawmakers, at least if you want to accomplish anything. There’s worky work involved. No matter how wonderful psychedelics are, they won’t help to do any of the paperwork, or make the phone calls, or get the permits for the rally, or collect the data, or prepare the powerpoints, or wait outside some politician’s office. Tripping is a recreational activity. I bet that major oil and automobile producers would give pharmaceutical grade LSD to environmental activists if they thought they could get away with it. I lived through the 1960s and 1970s, so I can attest that most of the art created under the influence of psychedelics was ponderous garbage, so tripping won’t create any great new ideas for selling environmentalism. For every Sgt. Pepper and Easy Rider, there were a hundred trippy records and movies that are justifiably forgotten.

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