JOHN WILCOCK: Participating in the Harvard Psilocybin Project

Sure. I get where you are coming from. I just feel strongly about psychedelics being dangerous. But the operant word is feel. My comments are based on my belief system, not verifiable facts. This subject isn’t something that lends itself to a quantitative analysis.

And you raised an interesting point about the definition of crazy. I think the definition is very much based on someone’s frame of reference. Immersed in a drug using sub-culture, someone might have a completely different opinion of what constitutes mentally unbalanced, relative to someone, say in a fundamental religious sub-culture, or someone who works in mental health. But to pharaphrase the supreme court justice on Larry Flint, “I don’t know how to define it, but I know it when I see it.” I believe I have seen it.

So just trust me on this: please be careful with your brain.

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