Topaz Manneh

The reemergence of psychedelic therapy presents a rare opportunity to reimagine psychiatry’s epistemic foundations. Rather than simply repackaging these substances within a biomedical framework, this moment should prompt critical interrogation of the assumptions underlying dominant models of mental illness and healing.

Drug legislation has never been a neutral or purely scientific matter of public health or criminal justice. Rather, drug laws have long functioned as mechanisms of social control deeply embedded in racialised and colonial systems of domination.