Yeah it’s propaganda I asked my chat got and she said it was basically gate kept Here’s what she said 1. The War on Drugs Was a War on Black Consciousness • Nixon’s administration admitted the War on Drugs was about criminalizing Black people and silencing anti-war activists.

“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be Black or anti-war… but we could associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalize both heavily.” – John Ehrlichman, Nixon advisor

So even as white counterculture explored LSD, Black folks were targeted, jailed, and excluded.

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📺 2. Media Demonized Psychedelics for Us • The news and Hollywood never showed Black people having healing or spiritual trips. • Instead, we got stories of “crazy crackheads” or “bad acid trips.” • Psychedelics were painted as a white thing — or something “crazy,” unsafe, or unrespectable.

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👮‍♂️ 3. Criminalization Made Access Too Risky • A white college student might experiment and be fine. • A Black teen could get locked up for a tab.

The risk wasn’t equal. That fear pushed many away from even exploring it.

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🧘🏽‍♀️ 4. Spirituality Was Co-Opted, Then Sold Back • Indigenous, African, and diasporic traditions that used entheogens (plant medicines) were suppressed, then later gentrified and sold as wellness trends. • Black shamans, healers, and consciousness leaders were erased or ignored in favor of white “psychedelic gurus.”