No. It hasn't always been this way. Interest in psychedelics (on HN and on many other forums, media outlets, and society in general) was rekindled at the star

No. It hasn't always been this way. Interest in psychedelics (on HN and on many other forums, media outlets, and society in general) was rekindled at the start of the so-called Psychedelic Renaissance, when very positive results of new research in psychedelics was announced. Michael Pollan's "Trip Treatment" article[1] was one of the first to make mainstream readers aware this was going on. After that the floodgates opened as more and more positive research results were announced. HN, like many other news aggregators, discussion forums, and social media outlets followed this trend, and psychedelic users started coming out of the closet... leading to more interest and more coverage. Then microdosing psychedelics started to become trendy, and it seems a lot of people in tech got in to that as well. So now it seems we have a situation where quite a few people on HN are interested in this subject. But, no, it wasn't always like this, and HN used to be much more narrowly focused on tech and startups than it is now. [1] - https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/the-trip-treatment/ https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/the-trip-treatmen...