Скачать или смотреть Conditional Access Psychedelics, Power, and the Fight to Keep WholePlant Cannabis Medicine in Public

this webinar traces the intertwined histories of psychedelic research, underground economies, and institutional power from the 1970s to the present, drawing on both lived experience and contemporary scientific and policy work.

Beginning in academic anthropology and early psychedelic research, the narrative follows how informal countercultural networks evolved under prohibition into increasingly formalized systems: illicit supply chains, cartel logistics, clandestine chemistry, and ultimately, law enforcement and regulatory response. Throughout, the webinar examines “access” as a governing principle: who is permitted entry, under what conditions, and how permission is tested, withdrawn, and enforced across different systems of power.

Rather than a confessional account, the presentation offers an anthropological analysis of systems under constraint: how rules operate when they are rarely written, how trust and threat coexist, and how participation gradually narrows freedom without ever fully eliminating agency. These themes reappear in contemporary settings, particularly in the modern resurgence of psychedelic-assisted therapy and cannabinoid medicine, where informal knowledge is being translated into clinical, commercial, and regulatory frameworks.

Additionally, the talk turns to recent research and advocacy work focused on the risk of enclosure as these substances become medically legitimate. Drawing on a current proposal for a public-domain, whole-plant cannabis medicines program, the presentation explores how standards, formulations, intellectual property, and FDA-grade evidence can either concentrate control or be deliberately designed as shared public infrastructure. The goal is not to reject medicalization, but to ask how legitimacy can be achieved without captivity, how rigorous science, clinical access, and public interest governance might coexist.