The Risks of Psychedelics

Psilocybin was actually the least harmful drug going by this analysis despite the fact that all three of those are class A drugs which you would think means they're pretty dangerous. The most harmful drug was alcohol which probably won't actually be particularly surprising but it is almost laughable. About 10% of people who have taken LSD or synocybin well at some point experience or re-experience some element of a trip that they had in the weeks that followed so maybe they have some sort of very brief visual distortion.

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