Elisabeth McKay

No.

It's a distraction technique.

And

I think all the more dangerous, a place where you are putting yourself into a drug-induced state and somebody is more susceptible to delusion, outside influence, false memories presenting as real, and it's already hard for people to parse through accurately their own historical narrative.

Then if you add drugs on top of it, you go from, you know, black and white to the grayest thing you've ever experienced in your whole life.

So to me, this idea that we... This idea that we are going to now normalize weed, normalize ketamine, push psychedelic research and start to normalize psychedelics.

We have to wonder...

What the true origin of that is and ask ourselves some really honest questions about does introducing those things generally help us or harm us?

I think that there are specific use cases where people have benefit.

Here's an example when it comes to things like mushrooms.

If somebody is a rigid control freak and they want to control every single step, they can't get out of their own way, they are extremely rigid and fearful, could doing psilocybin mushrooms give them some sort of a life-altering temporary experience where they cannot be in control and maybe they make contact with something that feels beyond their physical reality that makes them feel a sense of purpose?

Of course that's true.

Of course that can happen.

But it's also equally as true that somebody who already naturally skews toward psychological mechanisms like projection, deflection, blame shifting, splitting, and or some sort of other delusional behavior is actually more drawn to

toward doing a medicine ceremony.

And should that person do psilocybin mushrooms?

Absolutely not under any circumstances.

So my biggest concern is that if you make it broadly accessible and you start talking about it like it's generally great for everybody, it's life transformative, it'll change your life.

You're potentially putting people in harm's way because you've just talked about the generalities of it rather than saying these people are not a good fit for this thing.

And by the way, I feel the same thing about vaccines, right?