[hericium]

> The precise circumstances in which I took the drug don’t matter.

Absolutely false. Set and setting are crucial.

[cjfd]

The article makes this very point a few times.

[Hounddog11]

It doesn't matter to the story, not that it doesn't matter in general.

[mahathu]

Exactly.

> Suffice to say that I was far from home in an unfamiliar (and public) environment with people I didn’t know very well and had little reason to trust.

Stopped reading after this part -- Taking psychedelics in such circumstances is a horrible idea!

[0vermorrow]

Well see, there is your problem, because the author says this in the immediate next sentence

> In other words, it was as unsuitable an environment for psychedelic experimentation as I could have designed [...]