During my research I interviewed a guy who said he was a libertarian until he did MDMA and realized that other people have feelings, and that was pretty much the best summary of libertarianism I've ever heard

To all the libertarians who follow me: I love you! But.... you should really do MDMA

This is blowing up lol so to be clear: this is just one guy's story. But it's not unheard of. M & psychedelics are powerful empathogens so when used alongside learning, travel & openness to new experiences you can be more likely to develop a politics based on empathy & community.

Drugs alone won't make you a good person, as much as we wanna believe that acid in the water supply would solve everything, if psychedelics automatically turned people into socialists then Silicon Valley wouldn't be the den of sociopathic venture capitalist ghouls that it is lol

If you'd like to read the research I did this interview for (it was a few years ago), my Master's thesis "Prohibited Practice: Drug Use, Harm Reduction and Benefit Enhancement in Toronto Rave Culture" is available for download here! https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3852/ 

Some excerpts:

I'm getting a lot of DMs about MDMA & psychs—I love you all, I'm so glad you are interested & trust me enough to reach out! But I just don't have time to answer this many. What I'll do, though, is answer as many as I can on the next @breadandpoppies episode!

A lil drug Q&A

Til then, here's some info!

MDMA harm reduction:  https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/a-guide-to-mdma-harm-reduction

General info:  https://erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma.shtml 

FAQ:  https://amp.reddit.com/r/MDMA/comments/aftc02/faq_of_common_questions/?__twitter_impression=true

Ask Q's here (but listen to answers critically), or search keywords:  https://www.reddit.com/r/MDMA/ 

(All this from a dunk on libertarians )

Also, just to be clear: yes, libertarians have the correct position on drugs, and a few other social issues. They aren't correct about much else though, including their overall ideology.

What they actually need more than MDMA is a historical materialist analysis.