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> The precise circumstances in which I took the drug don’t matter. Absolutely false. Set and setting are crucial.

• mahathu 4y ago
  Exactly. > Suffice to say that I was far from home in an unfamiliar (and public) environment with people I didn’t know very well and had little reason to trust. Stopped reading after this part -- Taking psychedelics in such circumstances is a horrible idea!
  • 0vermorrow 4y ago
    Well see, there is your problem, because the author says this in the immediate next sentence > In other words, it was as unsuitable an environment for psychedelic experimentation as I could have designed [...]
• Hounddog11 4y ago
  It doesn't matter to the story, not that it doesn't matter in general.
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• cjfd 4y ago
  The article makes this very point a few times.