European Journal of Futures Research

Socio-psychedelic imaginaries: envisioning and building legal psychedelic worlds in the United States

Based on three years of ethnographic research in the United States, this paper identifies and interprets four contemporary socio-psychedelic imaginaries — biomedicalization, decriminalization, legalization and sacramental — and analyses how they converge and diverge around politics of access, responsibility, naming, assimilation and epistemic credibility. It argues these co‑evolving imaginaries mutually shape and amplify one another, functioning as a societal corrective to decades of prohibition while rooted in human–psychedelic entanglements.

Published

April 30, 2022

Journal

European Journal of Futures Research

Authors

Schwarz-Plaschg, C.