Literally only one of the drugs you mentioned can kill you due to withdrawal. Hint: it's not LSD or tobacco.
Alcohol is an _extremely_ harmful drug.
Alcohol is an _extremely_ harmful drug.
Risk of death is significant, but we’re talking under 0.1% per year.
that very few are overdosing isn't the issue.
No, LSD won't kill your body. But what are you? You aren't just your body, you are your mind and mental state and the consistency of that.
Do enough LSD, especially consistent high doses, and the "you" you know will die and be permanently replaced by something else.
I of course agree that LSD won't put you in a coffin. But there are more axes upon which a drug's danger should be evaluated than "what percentage of users are put in coffins?"
A conundrum.
And critically, lobotomy isn't a change from one set of mental states to another. That big chunk of brain doesn't grow back.
Post lobotomy people generally weren’t brain dead, even if diminished. So for extreme cases, yes it’s a solid comparison.
I consider myself lucky that the anxiety only shows up when on drugs, which is pretty easy to avoid by, y'know, not doing drugs. But clearly something permanently shifted inside my brain.
The inability to experience something I used to enjoy without a near-panic-attack is a bit more of an effect than a conversation might have.
I had a college roommate who did a shit ton of LSD one night and I woke up to the fire alarm having been pulled and him punching holes in the wall.
The police (fire department called the police) dragged him off and the hospital had to give him a bunch of antidepressants to short circuit the LSD.
He was literally not the same person ever again. That is terrifying, even more so than chemical dependency, to me.
Once you can't seperate fantasy from reality you're just one bad trip from falling out of a window you thought was a door.
edit: The responses here just seem like denialism from people who got lucky to be honest.
You can be aware that you are tripping and still imagine that something is something else.
Roads looked like footpaths to me, windows looked like doors, knives looked like forks, and so on and so forth. I was aware that it wasn't real but couldn't be sure of the safety of existing in the world.
I basically had to sit in a corner for 10 hours, hope that the corner was actually the one I thought it was and that I wasn't going to fall down a staircase instead.
It was great fun but felt like russian roulette.
Because what you’re describing doesn’t resemble LSD at all. You’re describing deleriants like datura if anything.
That said things can still happen on a bad trip. I posted my own personal experience downthread.
Yeah. If alcohol was discovered only today, there wouldn't be a government in the world that would legalise it.
It's legal because its grandfathered in, from the time before humans developed society and civilisation.