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<em>The time is right for psychedelia to undergo a critical and reflexive self-examination. Quite understandably given the legal situation, it has adopted a defensive attitude, seeing itself as a persecuted and misunderstood minority which, nonetheless, possesses privileged access to the truth. To question any of its tenets is to risk being branded ‘anti’, but not to do so, I would argue, is to leave ourselves open to the much more serious accusation of embracing irrationalism.</em>

SA pal, Shroom! author and folk musician Andy Letcher is interviewed over at <a href="http://psypressuk.com/2010/02/18/interview-andy-letcher/" target="_blank">Psychedelic Press UK</a>, a new/ish site that seems to be building up a potent head of steam.