[vidarh]

I don't want to dismiss your anecdote, because it is very much possible you've come across an outlier where LSD actually had that effect, but without knowing for sure they had actually taken unadulterated LSD it's tricky. In any case it sounds like a harrowing experience, and certainly a reason to be careful (and to be mindful that whether or not you believe the risk of any given drug is acceptable, ensuring you get the drug you actually intend is another problem).

I'll also note I specifically did not call it safe. It is one of the safest. We don't know what a lethal dose would be, and to the extent users might do harm to others, it has been limited enough to not get picked up at any substantial scale. But you're right to not make a blanket claim that it is safe, and I would agree we can't make the claim that it is safe.

At least some studies of the "classic" psychedelics have found them to be correlated with fewer violent arrests, and fewer arrests in general[1] compared to no drug use, but the problem with that too is that we don't know whether this is down to who uses LSD vs. other drugs - if users of LSD are sufficiently less violent on average, then it could still increase that baseline and just not be picked up. But compared to the massive effects of e.g. alcohol, there's simply nothing to suggest it is even in the same ballpark.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29039233/