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by idiotsecant 221 days ago
Are you telling me you've never met an old LSD abuser whose brain was fried like an egg? LSD can also trigger legitimate lifelong psychotic states in some people.

There is a big difference between 'generally not harmful in very small singular doses' and 'all harm is fabricated'.

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Ive seen people with fried brains from copious amounts of drug abuse taking everything under the sun that will also sometimes take LSD. Ive never seen someone who only takes psychodelics like LSD and mushrooms, even heroic amounts, have any cognitive problems from it.
> Are you telling me you've never met an old LSD abuser whose brain was fried like an egg?

I’ve known old LSD abusers with fried brains but never seen a LSD abuser go from non-fried to fried brains. Correlation is not causation, but it could be.

> LSD can also trigger legitimate lifelong psychotic states in some people.

These statements should be accompanied by the necessary caveat that just about anything can trigger psychotic states in people prone to psychosis.