[Rhapso]

Music can alter your mental state, and even if these kids are tripping to good tunes, Should we be worried? Then again humans have been using psychotropic drugs for millennia and we think they are bad. Music and Drugs have been a normal part of human culture since we started this whole culture thing. What changed?

[willfully_lost]

It's an interesting question. I imagine a lot of it has to do with our current world view. I think a lot of people have a tacit understanding of how fragile it is.

The psychedelics for example aren't illegal because of any harmful physical effects - they're some of the safest drugs we know of, physically. They're illegal because of the world dissolving experience you might have on one. For a people like us who have built up an elaborately abstract way of viewing our world, this is quite threatening.

I think it can also speak about why something like marijuana is still illegal yet caffeine is a daily sacrament for us - one makes you go even faster and work even more, the other makes you fairly uninterested in such things.