I mostly agree with you, but your argument would be stronger if you didn't just blame everything on "overdoing" it. My understanding is that psychedelics work

I mostly agree with you, but your argument would be stronger if you didn't just blame everything on "overdoing" it. My understanding is that psychedelics work by disinhibiting certain self-regulatory mechanisms in the brain. This means a bad trip can come simply from a person's past, e.g. if they have some unprocessed trauma that's usually repressed, the result can easily be ugly. I agree with you that people who already know themselves well don't need to be afraid. It's the grey area of people who don't know themselves well but perhaps want to know themselves better that can get tricky.