[andy_ppp]

The truth is that we need lots of well designed clinical trials to decide if psychedelics are helpful or not. It's really difficult to decide on efficacy of drugs. For example, we still aren't certain how much salt is bad for you, who knows if LSD and other drugs that react in mindblowingly complex ways in the brain can be good or bad.

We can only get somewhere with this by being as scientific as we can and refining our view of these drugs, be they prove to be good or bad. Prohibition of them definitely hasn't helped us decide. I'm willing to believe that they do help some people, some of the time.

[exit]

the article is about psychiatric drugs, not psychedelics.

[corin_]

Not related to this article so you're right to call it out, but a side point: psychedelics are a class of psychiatric drug.

[andy_ppp]

That is totally amazing - I did skim the article pretty fast but still was 100% sure I read psychedelics. Strange how your mind works sometimes :-D