[pessimizer]

This all sounds like warmed-over hippie-lore. I would have loved for my first time to take LSD to have been in a completely safe, clean environment filled with treats, doctors, and other people who were attending to me. The worst parts of the first experience for most people are fear of police, fear that one is having a medical problem, and fear that one is being a problem for the people they're with. This experience has precisely none of that.

It's good that they got data from first time users. It would be even better to get data from people who hadn't been set up with psychedelic culture expectations, but that jury pool is hopelessly tainted.

> I think multiple rapid use unnecessarily increases the low-ish risk of psychosis.

I don't think there's any good evidence that LSD affects the rate of psychosis, just the entirely expected outcome that people who have psychosis may be triggered to express that psychosis by LSD use, combined with the statistical fact that people try psychedelics at the same period of life as schizophrenics start showing their first symptoms (late teens to early 30s.)

[lm28469]

> doctors, and other people who were attending to me

I did my fair share and this sounds like absolute hell on earth. But then again my first trip was alone deep in the middle of the woods, still my best drug related experience so far, and that was more than a decade ago