I don't think anyone has any business recommending psychedelics for the same reason I don't think we should just surgically remove latent inhibition.
The effects run the gamut from massive increase in creativity and insight through to full-blown schizophrenia. Risky business.
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are you saying that the impetus for "[person] should do psychedelics" should come from the person who would do them instead of an outside source?
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Bingo. I knew for a long time (years) that I wanted to do LSD before I tried it. This was something that just *made sense* to me on some ineffable level.
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ahh, okay. Yeah that's kinda how I feel about them rn. I'm caught in a Gordian Knot and I get the sense that psychedelics (or a specific one) would be the sword.
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If it's a genuine thought you've arrived at on your own, you can try it.
If you have a clear understanding of the risks and benefits, and feel you'd stand to lose more for not trying it, go for it. That's very much how I arrived at it myself.
Still, be careful.
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I intensely despise the sort of person who, say, tries mushrooms once and then wants every motherfucker they meet on the planet to try it.
Fuck every one of these people.
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