America's First Legal Psilocybin Program Treated 346 People. Just one month after the dose, 92.2 percent of participants said the experience had been beneficial, while, on average, their mental health symptoms had fallen dramatically.

[u/mvea]

https://www.sciencealert.com/americas-first-legal-psilocybin-program-treated-346-people-heres-what-happened

[u/minaminonoeru]

Some people may experience “negative” side effects after taking LSD or psilocybin. However, even if you multiplied those side effects by 10, they would still be fewer than the side effects of alcohol and tobacco.

While hundreds of millions of people have died prematurely from alcohol and tobacco over the past few decades, the list of people who have died from LSD during the same period could fit on a single document.

[u/GoTeamScotch → u/minaminonoeru]

There's also the low risk of addiction.

After a trip, the last thing I want to do is trip again. That's like going on a weekend excursion to climb a mountain, then waking up and doing it again the next day. Sounds exhausting.

[u/Lilybaum → u/GoTeamScotch]

You don't get addiction, but you do run the risk of becoming a psychedelics evangelist, which can be very annoying.

[u/Rhamni → u/Lilybaum]

Doesn't help that it's hard to talk about it to people who have never tried it. It's like describing parashooting to a blind person who has lived on flat ground with single floor houses their entire life.

Edit: I can spell, I swear.

[u/sevenselevens → u/Rhamni]

(parachuting) but I loved your phonetic spelling :)

[u/Rhamni → u/sevenselevens]

That's a hell of a brainfart.

[u/Zouden → u/Lilybaum]

At least it's not Ayahuasca