I think this is a very appropriate comparison. At risk of forcing the analogy, there's some balance between (dis)trusting society at large with the liberation o

I think this is a very appropriate comparison. At risk of forcing the analogy, there's some balance between (dis)trusting society at large with the liberation of attitudes towards psychedelics while maintaining some guardrails against the objectification, or cheapening, or hyping (miracle cure-all style) or even institutionalization of the experience/tooling. Society seems to be very tolerant of the risks/consequences of liberalized sexual morality. I'm not in any way interested in judging that as a positive or negative right now, just the observation that a) there are consequences; b) Western society has given priority to the benefits over the consequences; c) the boundaries and dimensions of the issue, benefits, consequences are still being explored; d) that exploration has largely been hands-off and organic, addressing problems in an arguably reactive posture. With psychedelics I think the risks/consequences are potentially greater and so would say simply as a comparison, societies need to be a little more careful, a little less reckless with this one. I instinctively project my own positive experiences with psychedelics onto others and so imagine positive outcomes to be more accessible or certain for society at large. This instinct - I know from observation as I've grown older and have seen more of the world and its inhabitants - needs to be checked. There are a lot of broken people out there, a lot of vulnerable people, a lot of self-interested influences that are either uncaring or malign. I have trouble articulating my full thoughts on this, but I don't think Western and particularly US culture has done a good job managing mental health and particularly in fostering positive mental health during formative years of human development. Not specifically talking about acute diagnosable disorders, but even the level of chronic anxiety, depression, and hopelessness that is experienced and amplified when passed cyclically over generations. The causes are interesting but beyond the scope of my comment, though it does influence my skepticism about throwing a grenade of recreational psychedelics into the gen-pop and letting it work itself out. I know someone is bound to say that nobody is talking about recreational psychedelics in a conversation about therapeutical use, but I would say that's precisely my starting point - a) it's hard to avoid more recreational use of psychedelics when normalizing it socially even in a clinical setting; b) figuring out how and where to set up appropriate guardrails should be deliberate; c) the experience with sexual liberation can probably inform the conversation in valuable ways, particularly in a critical approach. This is not an easy problem to solve in a secular, diverse, free-market democracy since the levers of influence are less centralized and arguably incentivized towards disruption, live experimentation, and deconstruction.