After the Renaissance: An Integrated Approach to Psychedelic Medicine

 What comes after the integration of psychedelics into medical practice? How can we ensure a future where there is also a place for indigenous voices, traditional plants, community practices, and non-medical applications of psychedelics? We will argue the need for a counterpart to exist alongside the psychedelic clinics of the future. This counterpart is based on group and community uses instead of individual ones, it is respectful of the traditions, it regulates spaces rather than substances or products, and it leverages the power of psychedelics as prevention tools, rather than as treatment options. This vision is not oppositional to psychedelics’ role in bio-medical frameworks, but complementary to it, aimed at deeper reflection, reaching beyond the limitations of medicalization. Historically, in Europe, after the Renaissance came the Enlightenment. What if after the Psychedelic Renaissance came the Psychedelic Enlightenment? Is there a pearl hiding in the sand of the globalization of indigenous plant medicines?