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In a recent interview with Business Insider, crime and drug policy expert Mark Kleiman made a pretty quick and simple case for ending the prohibition on psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocybin.

Kleiman is the director of the Crime and Justice program at NYU's Marron Institute of Public Management, the editor of theJournal of Drug Policy Analysisand the author or co-author of numerous academically-informed books on dealing with drugs, includingDrugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Timothy Leary he's not, but he is open to loosening up on psychedelics. Although he doesn't mention it in the short segment below, Kleiman is undoubtedly aware that psychedelics are not addictive and have a virtually non-existent fatal overdose potential, so his concerns are eminently practical: bad trips and people doing stupid stuff under the influence.

But leave it up to Kleiman, long willing to dabble in outside-the-box notions about how to regulate drug use, to come up with a unique idea about trip-sitters to care for those too infused with the Godhead to take care of themselves.

Phillip Smith is editor of the AlterNet Drug Reporter and author of the Drug War Chronicle.

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