> "Nothing like a blanket statement in your first sentence to immediately discredit your argument."
My opinion is as valid as the opinion of psychonauts. Maybe more so because I do not rave about great insights about the universe or gods or aliens or chakra or kundalini or third eye or old souls; New Age stuff whose proponents are famous for the promotion of altered states (!) by meditation or yoga or drugs.
> "There are now hundreds of studies showing numerous benefits to psychedelics, from anxiety, depression, OCD, anxiety, Autism, etc.
> What more evidence and data do you need?"
All noteworthy (positive) studies are published by medical experts.
All medical experts warn against the casual use of psychedelics. They all promote a therapy that might include psychedelics under supervision of a medical expert.
Only people who suffer from psychosis defend their delusions as real and important.
No chakras, gods or old souls are needed for you to agree to the statement that some aspects of reality are constructed by the human mind (cf. Kant). It explains, for instance, why you perceive what you're sitting on right now as a "chair" rather than the mere collection of atoms and molecules that it's actually made of. Nature outside of the mind has no concept of an object, and no concept of a subject. Acid may help one see reality that way, if one is curious and mentally stable enough to want to.
Disclaimer: NOT intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment
Nothing like a blanket statement in your first sentence to immediately discredit your argument.
"All black people... All psychonauts... All Americans..." When you look at it yourself... doesn't it sound stupid to try to argue this way?
There are now hundreds of studies showing numerous benefits to psychedelics, from anxiety, depression, OCD, anxiety, Autism, etc.
What more evidence and data do you need?