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Your paranoia of “hippies”, denigration of people who are “too peaceful”, and basic understanding of psychedelic pharmacology are wholly subjective, unscientific, and warped by media portrayals

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms


This is the correct answer; people whose only understanding of psychedelics draws from media portrayals of the 60s have a dramatically warped and puritanical perspective on what is a pharmacological effect vs a cultural effect


This is the correct answer; psychedelics enhance aspects of your personality that were already quite present


It obviously needs more formal research, but anecdotal reports of tryptamine-based psychedelics indicate strong potential for stress management and/or general mental health recovery.

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms


Your experience is an anecdotal exception, not the norm.

I encourage you to actually read up on the pharmacology of psilocybin: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms.


It only takes a single but valid 'anecdote' to disprove a thesis as strong as 'Psilocybin has no short or long term detrimental effects'

There is no exception allowed for a statement like that.


Breathing has the long term negative effect of exposing your DNA to oxygen radicals.


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