"set & setting" is mainly a convenient red herring to switch off any curious inquiry about the risks from psychedelics. It goes like this: -- My friend took dr

"set & setting" is mainly a convenient red herring to switch off any curious inquiry about the risks from psychedelics. It goes like this: -- My friend took drug X and he had an accident! -- Set & setting? In other words, we don't care about your friend and his accident, we're just trying to counter any suggestions that he had an accident because of drug X. It was his fault for choosing the wrong set & setting. Which should tell you all you need to know about the "communities" that form around those substances. People ready to blame each other for whatever happens to them just in case their favourite drug gets a bad name. What a community.