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You and the parent are both "right." Psychedelics are notoriously unpredictable YMMV things, which is part of why they haven't been mainstreamed as a treatment for anything. For mainstream drugs we usually want something as predictable as possible.

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I think it’s silly that we have to medicalize mind altering drugs. Why does it have to be a treatment for something?

Because it is a treatment for some things and we should treat it that way so those that can be helped get the medicine they need

Maybe for general medicine. In modern psychiatry, however, the standard approach is to throw psych drugs at the patient until one works. Some of those have horrible side effects, too.

Since psychedelics would mostly be used for treating psych disorders, I hardly see a difference.

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