Absolutely! I can identify with the author of the Vice article. I worry that the liberalization of drugs will lead people that are "wired" differently to experiment and screw up their mental and cognitive skills.
Weed definitely changed me.
Weed definitely changed me.
There used to be a saying that LSD made smart people smarter and stupid people jump out of windows. Is that a good thing?
Jokes aside, evolution is not necessarily modern civilization, technology, and laws. Those are our creations, and psychedelics have been an active part of our arrival at them. Psychedelics have been used by humans the world over for far longer than people have been making LSD in labs.