I can’t imagine any new recreational drug would be allowed in the US, no matter what. If it ever got popular, it would be banned.
Maybe that sounds bitter, but I believe it is actually, literally true. If you feed a white rat enough of anything, he will get sick. And there will always be some clown who gets loaded and drives a car into an abutment. Legislators and other blue-noses would use that as a justification to ban anything they didn’t know about already.
Look at the years it has taken to get marijuana semi-legal, some places, and that is about as dangerous as jelly beans and has been around for millennia.
I’ll take it a step further and say psychotropics like shrooms or mescaline are actually GOOD for one’s psyche.
I’ve tripped all by my lonesome. It allowed me to take a very deep and profound look at myself. I found it to be very helpful in compartmentalizing a lot of personal baggage giving me a better attitude towards life in general.
And that was feeling that stayed with me long after the effects of the drug were gone.
I haven’t done psychotropics in many years but that’s only because I don’t have access to them anymore.
If I did, I’d do that “Tripping by myself” thing at least once a year. It’s like cleaning house up there.
True, but said rat will need to be force-fed most substances, whereas with alcohol, cocaine, opioids, and nicotine, the rat will choose to gorge voluntarily. And of the substances on which mammals will choose to gorge, ethyl alcohol is generally regarded as the most toxic, based on health sequelae. Narrow therapeutic window, toxic dose is very close to effective euphoric dose, withdrawal from it can commonly be fatal, significant chance of permanent target organ damage (liver, heart, brain).
I am not a supporter of prohibition; alcohol use is too much a part of human society for that to succeed. But let’s recognize it is also a very toxic, risky molecule.
