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Burn the house to kill the termites?

Not at all actually. LSD seems to quite a safe drug, and I'm beginning to question why it is illegal. Alcohol on the other hand seems to be much more dangerous.

This graph of active dose to lethal dose ratio and dependence risk serves as a fairly good measure for the risk of various drugs in my opinion: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Drug_dan...

Temporary insanity is viewed as dangerous. LSD is a particularly harsh substance, so on the scale of psychedelics... I would legalize it right before PCP.

Evidence based dear sir... evidence based. We don't really want to start legalizing drugs based on subjective perception, we want to start having studies and publishing numbers, and make decisions based on them.

True. I'm basing this on outcomes in my peer group.

I could classify many a drunk person as exhibiting temporary insanity, and clearly drunk people are dangerous. Should I assume you support prohibition of alcohol as well?

> quite a safe drug

With drug-induced chronic psychosis a possibility (as with pretty much ALL more potent drugs), I am not sure "quite safe" is exactly the right word, despite the odds...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD#Potential_adverse_effects

Let's talk about the potential adverse effects of alcohol.

Neither temporary insanity nor psychosis nor a horror trip are potential adverse side-effects of your first few pints... when kept under control and those adverse effects aside, recreational use of acid would probably not do more harm than controlled recreational alcohol consumption - but acid is far more potent and each use poses these threats.

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