> I think it is trivially obvious that civilization has decayed since their use became popular and widespread. I mean, the public has been exposed to a number

> I think it is trivially obvious that civilization has decayed since their use became popular and widespread. I mean, the public has been exposed to a number of other mass psychological experiments in the time frame I think the author is referencing, social media and its hooks into our reward centres being the most notable for being both more pervasive and more ingrained into day-to-day life I'm not saying the author is wrong on all accounts (though I also think psychedelics such as MDMA and Ketamine have shown much more promise for PTSD and depression than the other pharmaceutical treatments for those disorders which were integrated into the social fabric for decades before psychedelics became "popular") But the suggestion that the decay of civilization has been caused by the uptick in availability of psychedelic treatments has as much evidence as "wet streets cause rain" or "economic growth causes traffic congestion"