One of the smartest people I've known had a long-standing interest in this area -- e.g. coming up with his own grow units for magic mushrooms. He didn't just w

One of the smartest people I've known had a long-standing interest in this area -- e.g. coming up with his own grow units for magic mushrooms. He didn't just want to trip. When he took on the interest, he became a veritable encyclopedia on mushrooms, of various sorts and in general. This was also back many years before the current "Maker" trend. I guess you could call him a prototype, or an example of a constant -- there has always been a certain number of these highly intelligent free-thinkers and builders. I was never and am not into drugs. Getting to know him, however, did make my take a closer look at re-evaluate much of the simplistic "drugs are bad" indoctrination I'd encountered and been force fed growing up. Just as life and current circumstances have taught me to more carefully re-evaluate other tropes such as "paying one's dues" and the "self-made man [person]". I'm reminded of decades of research into cannabis severely stunted, so I read, by government policy and laws. "It's bad" and "because we say so" does not comport well with open and full-ranging scientific inquiry.