At the same time the people who did take it seriously were also unfairly discredited. There was a legitimate theory of the psychedelic state as a "model psychos

At the same time the people who did take it seriously were also unfairly discredited. There was a legitimate theory of the psychedelic state as a "model psychosis" which was simply rejected during the anti-drug hysteria which followed. The government (CIA) also used psychedelics in all kinds of horrible, torturous ways with their experiments.