Putting heroin and LSD in the same category seems bad. Mostly, adults without preexisting mental health issues can do LSD (and other commonly used psychedelics) safely without it causing issues. I am worried that a young person would come across advice like yours, end up trying psychedelics anyway and use that to conclude that the risks from trying the more harmful substances you mention are also overblown.
Mostly, adults without preexisting mental health issues can do LSD (and other commonly used psychedelics) safely without it causing issues.
The evidence against this claim has mounted steadily, and is now overwhelming.
I am worried that a young person would come across advice like yours, end up trying psychedelics anyway
That would be unfortunate, as it is exactly what I am advising against. Then again, someone who tries psychedelics runs a substantial risk of breaking their brain and destroying their rationality even after a single use (never mind multiple or regular use), so trying to calibrate advice on the basis of what people who’ve done psychedelic drugs will think seems to me to be a losing proposition.
Do you have any links to papers on the negative effects of psychedelics? I’d love to see the empirical “overwhelming evidence”—I think that has potential to push him back into a more cautious stance
Putting heroin and LSD in the same category seems bad. Mostly, adults without preexisting mental health issues can do LSD (and other commonly used psychedelics) safely without it causing issues. I am worried that a young person would come across advice like yours, end up trying psychedelics anyway and use that to conclude that the risks from trying the more harmful substances you mention are also overblown.
The evidence against this claim has mounted steadily, and is now overwhelming.
That would be unfortunate, as it is exactly what I am advising against. Then again, someone who tries psychedelics runs a substantial risk of breaking their brain and destroying their rationality even after a single use (never mind multiple or regular use), so trying to calibrate advice on the basis of what people who’ve done psychedelic drugs will think seems to me to be a losing proposition.
Do you have any links to papers on the negative effects of psychedelics? I’d love to see the empirical “overwhelming evidence”—I think that has potential to push him back into a more cautious stance