"Unclean nastiness"? And wriggling around on the floor on a big dose of LSD for 12 hours is casual clean fun? Getting psychosis from shrooms is not a big of a deal as getting hooked on heroin?
Romanticizing psychedelics is a good starting point for abuse.
Some subset of people do some subset of drugs in order to settle addictive pressure (e.g. popping one’s codeine pills for the day)
Some subset of people do some subset of drugs in order to gain psychological or insight or have spiritual experience (e.g. taking psilocybin with an appropriate setting)
While the lines can be blurry, these are distinct use cases each with their own risks and considerations so they’re worth separating out.
For example, weed can be used for all five of those purposes. But what's the value you see in separating them?
My point was in response to the parent's 'is it so much different really' question - when you insist that all varieties of reasons that people might be ingesting psychoactive substances stay under the same banner it's a fair bit harder to have a useful conversation about it.
Yes.