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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by BasedAnon on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:58PM (#36155744)
> When not done under proper set & setting, yeah.

Sorry but this is the biggest load of garbage. You can do everything right, and still come away with trauma and psych issues. It's like writing randomly to memory from ring 0 and hoping you don't irreversibly wreck your install.

Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by NoImmatureAdHom on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:51PM (#36160281)
> You can do everything right, and still come away with trauma and psych issues

Yes, but the question is: how likely are "trauma & psych issues"? How dangerous is the drug in comparison to going out and having six drinks over the course of the night, or (if you do LSD say once a year) a year's worth of drinking? Or, how about in comparison to living somewhere that means you need to drive to work every weekday?

Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by BasedAnon on Friday June 02, 2023 @03:41PM (#36169862)
This presumes I think drinking is better, I don't, in fact I would probably argue LSD is a less harmful drug on the whole compared to alcohol.
Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by NoImmatureAdHom on Saturday June 03, 2023 @08:03AM (#36175934)
Yeah sorry, I don't mean to presume. I just mean that you need to know the magnitude and have comparisons to really have a meaningful opinion.
Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday June 02, 2023 @05:49AM (#36163141)
"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.