and it can also be a one-way ticket to schizoville
I would bet that people who are predisposed to e.g. schizophrenia are, for the most part, going to experience some insult that makes it come on at some point before 30 years old. It's just a question of when, where, what, but it'll happen.
I bet the group of people who could develop schizophrenia were they to experience the right insult, but don't, is very small.
If you're around people you trust, in a controlled environment, you're not likely to develop schizophrenia.
If you just decide randomly to trip in an unknown environment with people you're not comfortable around, yeah, it's going to be a wild ride and you might not ever truly get off it even after the stuff wears off completely.
Sorry but this is the biggest load of garbage. You can do everything right, and still come away with trauma and psych issues. It's like writing randomly to memory from ring 0 and hoping you don't irreversibly wreck your install.
Yes, but the question is: how likely are "trauma & psych issues"? How dangerous is the drug in comparison to going out and having six drinks over the course of the night, or (if you do LSD say once a year) a year's worth of drinking? Or, how about in comparison to living somewhere that means you need to drive to work every weekday?
-- My friend took drug X and he had an accident!
-- Set & setting?
In other words, we don't care about your friend and his accident, we're just trying to counter any suggestions that he had an accident because of drug X. It was his fault for choosing the wrong set & setting.
Which should tell you all you need to know about the "communities" that form around those substances. People ready to blame each other for whatever happens to them just in case their favourite drug gets a bad name. What a community.
Things can go bad in any experience.
You can go zip lining and things can go bad. You can go through any experience and can be left with various degrees of physical and mental damage.
Does that mean we shouldn’t do anything?
I'm not saying you shouldn't do drugs. I'm saying that many of them require way more respect than most people realize they need to give them, and trying to downplay that is not good. I can tell you from personal experience that it's easy to get yourself and people you care about in dangerous places.
Yeah...I'm going to need to see some numbers to believe that.
Certainly safer than your average road car in most circumstances.