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If it takes scientific studies and regulated psychiatry to bring the benefits to the masses so be it. I can accept that. But I recently caused a controversy on
by labrador 4y ago
If it takes scientific studies and regulated psychiatry to bring the benefits to the masses so be it. I can accept that. But I recently caused a controversy on Twitter when I suggested psychedelic therapists have some experience with the drug itself. Apparently, this is a taboo topic and speaking about it openly might endanger the efforts to wrap it up in a legal doctor-patient type relationship.
- bertil 4y agoThe drug is nowhere as innocuous as the people selling you make you think. You can tell surgeons that they need to ride a bike before they should operate on people after crashes but you won’t have a great reaction either.
- labrador 4y ago> You can tell surgeons that they need to ride a bike That's not a good analogy. Fixing broken flesh and bones has nothing to do with knowing how to ride a bike A better analogy would be getting a sponsor in A.A. because you could get a sponsor who wasn't an alcoholic (and some do) but it's accepted that it takes an alcoholic to help an alcoholic. In other words, it takes some experience with the drug at hand to help someone with that drug. > The drug is nowhere as innocuous as the people selling you make you think There have been some famous acid casualties, such as Syd Barret of Pink Floyd. I'm sure we all know someone who did too much. However, there have been millions, perhaps billions of psychedelic trips taken over the last 60 years, yet the psyche wards aren't overflowing with people made sick by their trips.
- bertil 4y ago> yet the psyche wards aren't overflowing with people made sick by their trips. [Citation needed. Because, yes there is.]