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I'm afraid it will be sold at a price most will not be able to afford, especially without health insurance.

I'd support decriminalization efforts instead: we let people with cancer get weed from a dispensary.

Why not let veterans and other people with a generalized anxiety disorder get LSD the same way?

I'm generally in favor of letting (healthy) adults decide what they consume (in particular hallucinogens), but I'm not sure it is a good idea to just hand them out to people with real psychiatric disorders without any therapeutic guidance.

I wouldn't even hand it to normal, "stable" people without some guidance. Not everyone handles losing their marbles with grace and aplomb. It's not in the average person's skillset to be able to say, "it's just the drugs" and keep their cool.

One of the other reasons not to give it out freely is that it varies wildly in effect depending on who exactly takes it. I certainly don't lose my marbles when I'm on it, but plenty of people have lost their sanity from it, sometimes for months, years or even life. Not to mention HPPD can sometimes appear, ranging from just "weird" all the way to distressing or madness-inducing.

Same as Ketamine. Ketamine therapy is available now but, the cost very high so, it is practically unavailable to most.

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