Physically perhaps..
Psychologically I'm not so sure..
They've usually been a more middle class bourgeois sort of drug -
start making them one of the choices for a 'quick high' at the corner drugstore and I could see this not ending up so well - esp considering there are a lot of mentally unstable people on the streets with hampered intellect/self-control issues..
> Physically perhaps.. Psychologically I'm not so sure..
I mean, they can both give pretty unpleasant experiences when taken in too high a dose. Here's a journalist writing about their experience after eating a cannabis candy bar in Colorado[1]:
> I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. I was thirsty but couldn't move to get water. Or even turn off the lights. I was panting and paranoid, sure that when the room-service waiter knocked and I didn't answer, he'd call the police and have me arrested for being unable to handle my candy.
> I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.
I don't think this justifies making psilocybin or marijuana illegal, however. I do think it justifies regulating what products get sold to people (for instance, we'd never allow something that is called hard cider and tastes like hard cider but is 80% alcohol).
Presumably, legalization would prevent people from rooting around the woods trying to get high and possibly eating a deadly mushroom..
However, psychedelic mushrooms are unique in their identification. All mushrooms that turn blue when you touch them are psychedelic and there is only one that I'm aware of that doesn't turn blue (fly agaric - which isn't a psylocibe).
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Drugs aren't the problem, addiction is.
Errr..
Addiction isn't the problem, unprocessed developmental / Shock trauma is.