He's not saying it'll work for everybody but that people should have access to a treatment option which may work for them.

Let's not forget that this experience is not just this poster. There have been quite a few studies showing positive affects on the depressed with the use of hallucinogens.

Also, I'm not totally sure, and I may be wrong, but I have a feeling if you read that comment and are interested your first step isn't to immediately walk outside and go to Jam band concert to score some hallucinogens so you can test this theory out for yourself ;-). I have a feeling people do a bit more research.

But it's true especially for people with mental illness that hallucinogens should be taken with extreme care.

When you find a treatment for something that has been plaguing you for years, the only thing you want to do is shout it from the rooftops. GODDAMIT IM FREE! Here’s how I did it...

I agree with your sentiment, but there is a lot of off label prescribing and research on ketamine for depression. Much more so than any of the other substances.

It's still in its infancy and doctors are still scamming patients with $600+ IV infusions.

It's important to set the context. Those with treatment resistant mental illness are looking for other options. It makes sense, but often they are vulnerable to pseudoscience.

Is this a thing?

I know a guy who seriously overdosed on LSD and had to spend a weekend in a hospital. Other than a severe aversion to psychedelics he wasn't seriously harmed, at least not to the point where he needs daily medication to deal. He has the worst Adderall tolerance his docs have ever seen but that's unrelated. I suppose I could ask him whether his OD made his ADD worse.

For sure chronic abuse of psychedelics will cause permanent effects but I'm not aware that anything other than a life-threatening overdose of psychedelics will cause someone to need lifelong medication to manage the consequences.

They don't exist. Continuing to repeat reefer madness propaganda does not make it any more true.

Show one scientific study that shows any long term effect from a single dose of any of your listed substances and I will be happy to take your comment seriously.

I have met a lot of people who have experience psychedelics, and I know people who avoid them after a negative experience (much the same way people avoid tequila after one particular night), but I'm yet to meet anybody, or hear of anybody, who has had long term negative effects from psychedelics that requires medication.

I'm sure that maybe they do exist, but it's an exceedingly small percentage of people who try them. People are also allergic to peanuts, yet we don't ban peanuts for the few that will die if they come into contact with them.

Probably a bad idea to make those prescriptions.

Instead, they probably need to go deeper into the material that came up on the trip in a supportive setting (at least, that has worked for me a number of times).