Herman H. Douma

“Millions of people have taken mushrooms for thousands of years, with very few reports of negative consequences. But the government wanted to score points by being seen as “tough on drugs” as the opposition Tory party said they would be.”
― David J. Nutt, Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert

“Johnson’s research shows that psychedelics have the potential to revolutionize quitting smoking. If psychedelics hadn’t been banned, it seems likely that this use would have been discovered much sooner, and many millions of lives would have been saved.”
― David J. Nutt, Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert

“Using a back-of-an-envelope calculation, since LSD was banned in the late 1960s possibly 100 million people have died prematurely from alcohol abuse. They were denied a treatment with some strong evidence. And even if LSD had helped only 10 percent of them, that would have saved 10 million lives.”
― David J. Nutt, Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert

“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”
― Yehuda Berg