Feb 16, 2026
Thomas Hatsis joins us for episode 205 to discuss his new book Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance.
Together we discuss some pretty divisive topics: the distinction between social justice and critical social justice, how certain narratives are being imposed on the psychedelic movement, implicit bias research, decolonization rhetoric, the drug war's actual causes, and contested claims about psychedelic history.
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- 📚 GET THE BOOK: Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance
- 🤓 READ TOM's SUBSTACK: https://tomhatsis.substack.com/
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- 🎥 Check Tom Out On YouTube @TomHatsisTalk for his culture war content and @EntheoHistorian for his psychedelic history content
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Episode Breakdown
- (00:00) Opening
- (06:40) Interview Begins
- (07:32) Confronting The Imposition Of Controversy
- (10:10) The difference between Social Justice and Critical Social Justice
- (14:34) "The Narrative"
- (18:57) How "The Narrative" is being imposed up the psychedelic movement
- (25:57) What is the Psychedelic Renaissance such that Critical Social Justice is undermining it
- (34:46) the Critical Social Justice playbook is antithetical to the themes of psychedelic healing
- (36:23) Patreon Thanks
- (39:47) Why so hard, on the Left?
- (45:06) "Pro-Fa" ideological attacks in Psychedelia (Psymposia)
- (53:52) The "Theorists" and how they are compromising the psychedelic movement (Chacruna)
- (1:00:21) Discussing the realities and falsehoods of "implicit biases"
- (1:07:45) The Psychedelic Social Justice Warrior, well-meaning but misinformed
- (1:09:41) A quick discussion the the importance of quality citations
- (1:12:28) The Three Specific "Narratives" Undermining Psychedelia
- (1:13:09) The "Decolonize Narrative"
- (1:17:01) A quick aside considering "a different way of knowing"
- (1:17:50) Using inaccurate narratives about indigenous peoples to prop up the "decolonize narrative"
- (1:20:45) There was very little psychedelic use amongst indigenous people in North America
- (1:25:51) The "Racist Narrative", and how racism is not fuelling the drug war
- (1:32:08) Dr. Carl Hart and the fallacy of denouncing psychedelic exceptionalism
- (1:41:49) Oregon's Failed Drug Decriminalization
- (1:47:59) A short aside sharing anecdotes about video game addiction
- (1:50:30) The "Gender Narrative", the shield and the spear
- (1:55:52) The inaccurate portrayal of psychedelic gay conversion therapy
- (1:58:41) Concluding The Interview, Follow Up Links and Social
- (2:00:43) Follow Up Links and Socials
- (2:03:37) Outro