I've taken them with a therapist and it was meh because the doctor/patient relationship became weird under the influence. On the other hand I've had peak experiences by myself alone in a redwood forest on a fresh clear morning.
To quote an older friend who grew up in a dry county in Alabama: “The bootleggers didn’t care how old you were which was a good thing because I liked to drink and when I was 16 I looked 13”
Of course, drug companies and lobbyists also dream of such outcomes.
Wall Street doesn't like companies that go against the ingrained model of "extremely expensive long term care as a service".
Was it the lsd or were they just already nutters? Nobody knows.
Telling people to take strong drugs that are purity tested and in a supervised clinical setting is sensible, not some conspiracy.
That said, I am not opposed to a therapeutic setting if that's what people who never tried them feel comfortable with
Leading the psychedelic renaissance: https://maps.org/
A list off the top of my head mentally ill people should avoid: hand guns, rifles, poison, rope strong enough to hang oneself with, enough narcotics to go to sleep forever, dynamite, poison gas, large quantities of alcohol, religious cults, LSD...
I think there's a problem that we can agree on and that is early detection and treatment of mental illness in teens before they get their hands on an AR-15 or LSD. As a culture, America is very neglectful in this regard.
I suspect that psychedelics maybe appeal particularly to people who are psychiatrically marginal. In my youth I tripped a lot, and a surprising proportion of the people I knew turned out to be schizophrenic or bipolar. But maybe it's just that I found the company of people who were psychiatrically marginal engaging...
I would hazard there’s a large contingent of normies for whom the difference between supervised medical treatments that happen to be psychedelics and just the act of taking psychedelics is too large a leap.
I personally hate the experience. The hate is part of the goal of being able to stop being in control all the time, but it doesn’t mean I like it. I also hate the hangover feeling afterwards, but the neuroplasticy benefits have been profound and so I keep doing the treatment.
TL;DR benefits are there, normies should be allowed them too, non-normies I assume can still do black market work.
Why do you want non-normies to have gun toting government thugs put them in a concrete box for 20 years because they don't want to get a permission slip to do the same thing you did?
That reminds me of a joke, "I said to the doctor, doctor, you got be patient with me"