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Integrating psychedelics into political decision making
Recent claims are psychedelics had been used to tamper with political willpower worldwide. True or untrue?
Robert K. Elder tells a mind-boggling story of how MDMA (Ecstasy) was used to influence the political and defense stance of the Soviet Union in 1985. Were psychedelics used in movement to prevent the weaponization of space?
The main character of Robert’s story is Dr. Carol Rosin, an educator, futurist, former military strategist, and space and missile defense consultant who has many Russian friends. In 1983, Carol founded the Peace in Space project; the same year, she met Rick Doblin, a psychedelics researcher and the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).
In 1985 MDMA(Ecstasy) became a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act in the U.S. Days before, according to Robert K. Elder, Carol Rosin, allegedly a consultant on space and missile defense issues in Washington D.C. apparently took a suitcase full of MDMA(Ecstasy) to a friend’s apartment in Moscow and distributed Ecstasy to the willing and daring Russian friends. In Moscow, she did not want to have a psychedelic experience, hallucinations, or so on. The opposite. Carol’s mission was quite noble. She…
