Psychedelics are weird: some people will speak very positively about them. Other people get fucked up for life. It's like rolling a dice. Imho that's not a risk any person with sound judgement would take.
But I'm also sure they've helped many people as is evidenced by the replies here.
The older I get (and the more I hear about people ODing in the news and from friends), the more I think that drugs as a whole are bad and alcohol is only borderline acceptable because of inertia
As far as I know you can't sensibly OD on LSD for example. It doesn't really cause addiction and to OD you need to take something like 100x the effective dose.However the psychosis danger would still be a valid concern ("rolling a dice" puts it quite nicely)
the OD part wasn't with respect to LSD but towards drugs in general. I've known people who got started with psychedelics, then moved on to molly (not real MDMA, like the dangerous synthetic street shit), and onto other stuff after that. It makes people more susceptible to drug culture
I can't imagine anyone physically ODing on LSD if it's legit. But there's two risks: adverse mental reactions and adverse physical reactions if the shit you take isn't real
Humans can be allergic to anything - re-read your post replacing 'Psychedelics' with 'nuts' - no-one gets this excited over peanut allergies - we've replaced this fear with education, drugs should be the same.
Inertia is the worst justification for alcohol I have heard yet. If I could wave a wand and remove the most dangerous drug on the planet it would probably be alcohol.
But I'm also sure they've helped many people as is evidenced by the replies here.
The older I get (and the more I hear about people ODing in the news and from friends), the more I think that drugs as a whole are bad and alcohol is only borderline acceptable because of inertia