Book Event: Sensible Psychedelics

"The psychedelic community has become a monoculture. It is uninviting to the very people who could gain the most from these substances: people who want to strengthen family, faith, and human connection.”

Psychedelics are no longer a fringe topic. In 2024, Utah’s legislature passed Senate Bill 266, creating a pilot program that lets the University of Utah and Intermountain Health treat patients with psilocybin and MDMA. Governor Cox let the bill take effect, citing overwhelming legislative support. Yet the public conversation about these substances is still dominated by one worldview, one politics, and one set of assumptions about who belongs. Substacksltrib

Wesley Smith, co-author of Sensible Psychedelics (2026, with Karen King), will cover:

• A plain-language primer: what psychedelics are, what the research shows, and what it does not show

• How the psychedelic community became a monoculture, and what that costs it

• Why conservatives, people of faith, and the politically homeless are…