A Call for Positive Reform in Psychedelic Legalization

October 1, 2026

How Psychedelics will improve the world

neuron → mind → person → relationship → society → policy → future.

Quality of evidence. Explain randomized trials vs observational studies vs surveys vs mechanistic hypotheses.

Integration and lasting change. Explain why acute effects and long-term benefits are different.

Part III — From psychological change to everyday life

7. Presence, emotional regulation, and attention

Presence, attention, and reduced automaticity

8. Memory, reappraisal, and emotional processing

9. Relationships and connection

helping neurons helps system

Psychedelics have a significant potential to help people.

Psychedelics can help us understand others perspective which may increase unity

Presence makes 20% more happy

Presence dissolves negative emotions like anger and sadness. This makes you more happy yay

Why is there good and bad? most or all bad actions are caused by not managing negative emotions.

If everyone takes mushrooms periodically, then that makes the world more good.

Mushrooms give temporary presence by helping override attachments. Meditation and mushrooms are complimentary. They both make presnece. Mushrooms help give a window to presence.

Psychedelic Therapy

Psychedelics heal breakups

Inner Peace makes relational peace

World Peace is more easy to make with mushroom legalization. Because it makes you more happy inside.

Emotions are contagious and so if you are happy, then when you talk to others it makes other people happy. This increases connection, empathy and social cohesion. A minor incremental improvement in wellbeing ripples outward and then everyone gets a rainbow brain.

Psychedelics improve relationships

Unified Mind = more happy

Making others happy creates a positive upward spiral

New path to improve choice

The field of possibilities

Here we see a landscape of thought loops. Carhart-Harris and Friston’s 2019 REBUS paper proposes that psychedelics may relax the influence of strongly weighted high-level expectations. The old path is still here. It need not be the only path.

untie knots

see differently

Psychedelics help make everyone more happy

Psychedelics help with things like reinterpreting the past. This can make more happy and makes life more meaningful.

Memory

Psychedelics improve alignment

The closer you get to the moment the more wisdom you bring into it

Shared thinking improves cooperation

This increases networked consciousness between beings. This helps catalyze and accelerate knowledge transfer. This causes the stock market to boom. Which makes a Golden Age that never ends. Dune. The remade movies state that spice is a psychedelic. Spice is known to help with predicting the future, which is an inherent ability of the human mind. Psychedelics improve mental clarity

Default Mode Network

Why the DMN Gets Hyperactive in Depression In depressive disorder and chronic anxiety, the DMN becomes hyperactive and excessively rigid (hyper-connected within itself).

Pathological Rumination: An overactive DMN traps the brain in an endless loop of negative self-focused thoughts: replaying past mistakes, catastrophizing the future, and reinforcing negative beliefs ("I am broken," "Nothing will work out").

Loss of Network Switching: The DMN fails to quiet down when the person tries to engage with the outside world. This makes it difficult to concentrate on tasks because internal self-criticism continuously overrides sensory experience.

Rigid "Mental Grooves": Over time, high functional connectivity in the DMN strengthens these self-deprecating neural pathways, making negative thinking patterns automatic and hard to break.

The Psychedelic Experience

As you become more present and happy, your thoughts begin to change.

Psychedelics in Bars

Psilocybin can be added to ethanol to increase appreciation of music, art and conversation. Recreational psychdelic use improves wellbeing.

Psychedelics lower mental hindrances like distraction.

Mushrooms may have helped steve jobs become one of the greatest entrepeneur of all time. Mushrooms improve focus which steve jobs said is the most important thing in doing great work. Mushrooms improve this. Mushrooms are also common in cultures like burning man. The founders of google hired Eric Schmidt because he went to burning man. https://burningman.org/about-us/10-principles/

First Rate Madness

This book says that some mental conditions are a hindrance in one context might be a virtue in another. https://www.amazon.com/First-Rate-Madness-Uncovering-between-Leadership/dp/1455125237

Mushroom Legalization

Mushrooms help with consciousness research and help find our place in the universe

Consciousness is an important part of life.

Mushrooms help with managing emotions and this improves mindsets

Consciousness line illustration

Kerpow

Shrooms image

Psychedelics increaes grattitude and appreciation which makes more happiness

Most things people do in life are to gain happiness. Transitive Propery means we go from A->B->C. But psycheelics and meditaiton make it go from A->C which means we directly get happiness. That means we get more choice and executive function which are known to be a good thing.

Mushrooms improve creativity, productivty

Mushrooms also alleviate stress which make work more fun. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01335-5?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41187880/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Mushrooms help with concentration, relaxation and avoiding distraction.

Psychedelics can help create governance structures that are multi-directional. This means instead of a single leader, everyone leads each other.

psilocybin quiets activity in default mode network and then that quiets involuntary thought and self-absorption.

Psychedelics improve family bonding.

Integration Therapy

Structural Revolution

by HappyBear / Adnan Abdul Wahab 🧸

Further Research

Magic Ink

Neuralink

Feedback Loops

"In all of human experience, there is a basic duality that defines our interaction with the world. That duality is the opposition between the conscious and the unconscious, foreground and background, substructure and superstructure. All of experience is predicated upon this fundamental, yet almost invisible distinction. In any experience of the external world, your unconscious filters out what is unimportant, otherwise it would be impossible for your brain to extract patterns from such enormous swathes of information (all of the visual, aural, and tactile stimulation that your nerves are recording at every moment of your life). If you are exposed to any stimulus long enough, it congeals into a background entity, swept behind the curtain of your consciousness, and ceases to be an object of direct perception. This is obvious with things like putting on pants or wearing sunglasses—at first, it is an object of experience, but as it the experience is repeated (the feeling of having your leg press against denim or seeing an object shaded darker than it usually is), your brain filters it out and you no longer notice it. In a way, this is what happens in games like poker as well." https://haseebq.com/beauty-in-poker/

paul graham helped invent openAI by writing a blog and then that helped recruit the first batch of ycombinator students. IF everyone writes a blog then there might be more good ideas!

Refillable Nitrous Stations

Nitrous Oxide is known to help with studying and work. It can help make difficult problems easier to solve as a reward to support feedback loops.

The moment

“The person who find the moment by accident, and that’s typically how it happens, he experiences the glory of the moment – there are no thoughts, no emotions…it’s this feeling of great peace” The Moment

— With Love and Thank you - HappyBear / Adnan Abdul Wahab 🧸🌈

Thanks to Mark Chatkhan and Will Schneiderfor editing this document.

Presence and Morality

presence → less automatic reaction → more emotional regulation → more empathy/acceptance → better communication → healthier relationships

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31971095/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29309198/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17935531/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6153889/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9941505/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Neuroplasticity: making the brain easier to change

Metaplasticity

Set and Setting

Psychological insight

Under the REBUS hypothesis: “I'm worthless.” ↓ psychedelic state “Maybe I'm not as certain about that as I thought.” ↓ previously discounted evidence gets more weight “There are actually people who care about me.”

psychedelics may loosen powerful priors

Psychedelics help with

  1. Depression
  2. Anxiety
  3. addiction
  4. compulsive behavior
  5. well being
  6. Cognitive flexibility / getting unstuck
  7. Social anxiety / connection

happiness & well-being, flexibility & rumination, emotional processing, connection, habits, and meaning

rigidity → flexibility rumination → alternative interpretations avoidance → emotional engagement fear → reappraisal disconnection → connectedness hopelessness → meaning/possibility death anxiety → acceptance compulsive behavior → greater behavioral choice low well-being → improved well-being

Human brain changes after first psilocybin use

Low dose ████ 20% Psilocybin ██████████████ 72% Psilocybin + intensive psychological/spiritual practice ██████████████████ 92%

Link to study

At twelve months the participants also reported an average 32.5% positive mood-change score on the Persisting Effects Questionnaire. No participant reported that LSD had decreased their well-being or life satisfaction Link to study

10/14 participants at one year considered it among the 10 most meaningful experiences of their lives. link to study

(Link to Study)[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42616497/]

At one month: 92.2% said they had benefited from the experience. 58.6% ranked it among the 10 most meaningful experiences of their life.

| Study | Design | Measure | Numerical result | Evidence strength | |---|---|---|---|---| | Lyons et al., 2026 | 28 healthy, psychedelic-naive adults; 25 mg vs 1 mg psilocybin within-subject | WEMWBS well-being | +5.83 points at 2 weeks; +4.70 at 1 month vs control | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | | Griffiths et al., 2018 | 75 healthy adults, randomized, double-blind; low vs high-dose psilocybin | Well-being/life satisfaction | Mean +1.08 vs +2.20/+2.60 on −3 to +3 scale at 6 months; 20% vs 72%/92% reported moderate/very large increases | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | | Carhart-Harris et al., 2021 | 59 people with depression, randomized psilocybin vs escitalopram | WEMWBS + Flourishing | Well-being +15.4 vs +7.3 points; flourishing +14.4 vs +9.0 at 6 weeks | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | | Schmid & Liechti, 2017 | 16 healthy adults, 200 μg LSD; long-term follow-up | Life satisfaction/well-being | +1.0 at 1 month → +1.4 at 12 months on −3 to +3 scale | ⭐⭐⭐ | | Korthuis et al., 2026 | 346 people receiving legal Oregon psilocybin services | SWEMWBS + life satisfaction | +3.21 well-being points at 3 months; life satisfaction RR 1.31 | ⭐⭐⭐ |

References

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  2. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8277190/?utm_source=chatgpt.com - Improvements in clusters the researchers called “Being Well” and “Staying Well” persisted in the available follow-up data for as long as two year

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TODO - add voting to game - vote with people in the game - talk to them to update each others thinking

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