> My friends and family who have been the most active users of psychedelics have had their post-adolescent lives plagued by divorce, alienation from friends, mi

> My friends and family who have been the most active users of psychedelics have had their post-adolescent lives plagued by divorce, alienation from friends, misguided career decisions and have made them easily distracted and often hurtful insensitive people who seem to have a perennial inability to empathize with others or feel emotional remorse. These sound like personality problems that cause drug use. It's very hard for me to imagine drug use causing personality problems. Unless they were using them in childhood. > Ultimately the heavy users of psychedelics I am closest with seem like they have become docile bodies with a diminished capacity for critical thought that fit very neatly into an abusive capitalist society that wants them to endlessly chase fame and fortune while remaining addicted to over-stimulating digital media. And its hard to believe thats what Huxley and the intellectuals of his generation would have wanted. That's what our society does to everyone, not just drug users. Maybe the drug users have a harder time "growing up" because of the personality problems that caused them to use the drugs.