Abstract The global expansion of psychedelic research, clinical translation, and policy reform has intensified debates concerning safety, equity, cultural appropriation, and Indigenous rights. A prominent contribution to these discussions is the Hopkins–Oxford Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE) Consensus Statement (Jacobs et al., 2024), which proposes a foundational ethical framework for a field...
The global psychedelic field has been narrated through the metaphor of a “Psychedelic Renaissance.” While effective in mobilizing public interest, this framing reproduces Eurocentric histories, Darwinian narratives of sociocultural progress, and biomedical logics that marginalize Indigenous sciences and relational ecologies. Enduring coloniality and conflicts concerning biomedicalization,...