Panini and Psilocybin
Bridget Verhaaren
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 2024 DOI: 10.5406/15549399.57.4.08 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Psilocybin |
| Keywords | Psychoanalysis Hallucinogen |
| Key points | The narrator recounts her twenty-two-year-old daughter's three-year struggle with addiction, which began after boyfriends introduced her to substances. When asked how she funds her drug use, the daughter replies, "Pretty girls don't buy cocaine," laughs, and leaves. The mother describes her torment at realizing she can no longer protect her daughter, who she feels invited the danger in herself. |
Abstract
“Pretty girls don't buy cocaine,” Greta1 says and laughs as she walks out the front door. My hands and face sting as I stand frozen in the entryway and hear her start the car. I'd asked my twenty-two-year-old daughter where she got the money to feed the addictions she was battling. Over the past three years, she'd chosen a few subpar boyfriends who introduced her to substances, which helped set her on a devastating trajectory. One I'd never suspected. As a young mother, I worked hard to protect her from the dragons who dared approach. As a middle-aged mother, I lay awake in bed, tormented by the realization that she'd lowered the drawbridge and invited them into the castle.