This Is Your Brain on Drugs: A Review of Chris Letheby’s Philosophy of Psychedelics

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The work discusses the emerging relevance of a philosophy of psychedelics amidst growing mainstream interest, scientific research, and therapeutic applications. Chris Letheby's book, 'Philosophy of Psychedelics,' aims to establish this field as a legitimate area of academic inquiry, supported by Oxford University Press. The text highlights the significance of natural psychedelics being decriminalized in several American states.

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What is, or what should be, a philosophy of psychedelics? This question has never been so broadly relevant, given the groundswell of mainstream interest and experimentation, scientific investigation, therapeutic trials, entrepreneurial enterprise, and decriminalization of natural psychedelics in several American states. Chris Letheby’s Philosophy of Psychedelics is the first monograph to apply the term as an unelaborated title that, with the backing of Oxford University Press, projects the authority of a wide-ranging academic urtext that could define a renewed and newly legitimate field of inquiry.

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