"And a whole lot of new risks to go with the potential"
As long as alcohol is legal and easily available we shouldn't worry about psychedelics. I know plenty of people who have taken all kinds of psychedelics and seem OK. Psychedelics just don't seem very addictive for most people. I also know quite a few people who have been hurt by alcohol. They either hurt themselves or they hurt others while drunk.
Psychedelics are mostly illegal because Nixon didn’t like the hippies and federal agencies were looking for new budgets. It’s not as shameful as weed being illegal because the cops hired to enforce the prohibition needed new jobs and it mostly impacted poor communities and African American but it’s close.
As long as alcohol is legal and easily available we shouldn't worry about psychedelics. I know plenty of people who have taken all kinds of psychedelics and seem OK. Psychedelics just don't seem very addictive for most people. I also know quite a few people who have been hurt by alcohol. They either hurt themselves or they hurt others while drunk.