Unpopular opinion around here, but strong hallucinogenic drugs can have negative externalities.

Anything worse than alcohol?

Permanent psychosis or murdering your friends and family because you hallucinated them into a harmful monster?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9pmz/acid-lsd-fuelled-murd...

You’re cherry-picking [0] (using Vice to boot). Not to mention people do that without drugs.

How about the thousands who don’t commit violent crimes as a result of taking these drugs [1]? Sorta like the clothesline paradox [2].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking#:~:text=Cherr....

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3

2. https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-clothesline-paradox-and-th...

Adding to that, alcohol is worse in these categories.

one often discussed topic of psychedelics is "ego shedding/death" usually seen as a positive thing, which it can be. But it can certainly misalign you for life as you currently know it. So, you may end up "in a worse situation" if your life was going well, you experience "ego shedding" after which you struggle to return to "normal life". This concept is terrifying for a lot of people, and rightly so i think

Same as computers, cars, fossil fuels, social media, airplanes, plastic, guns, politics, capitalism, sunlight…

Did you hear about life itself? Leading cause of death.