How to create psychedelics' benefits without the 'trip'
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The introspective experience of viewing oneself, and one's relation to the rest of the world, from a unique perspective, is a key part of what brings the benefits.
The other, unmentioned, benefit of making a custom version of a common pharmaceutical chemical, is the ability to then patent the result. Thus granting the "inventor" a near permanent exclusive right to the drug.