Q: What do you make of Johns Hopkins University's research done for the National Institute on Drug Abuse that found that psilocybin is good for everyone, and should be passed out in fistfuls to anyone presenting themselves at a research facility with symptoms of not feeling centered or having self-doubts or never having more than four spiritually significant experiences or otherwise not feeling joyful or ecstatic or being an alcoholic and/or drug addict or dealing with psychological distress of serious illness?
A: There is not yet universal scientific consensus on many aspects of indiscriminate experimentation with psychotropic substances. Any reliable analysis must be on a much longer term than many of the recent studies have looked at. Until science surrounding gobbling 'shrooms is clear, I am unwilling to commit significant resources to damaging economic hardships and substantial reductions in quality of life.
Q: Aren't you just paraphrasing Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard's statement on global warning?
A: At least I didn't come off all Jim Inhofe-ish, saying psilocybin is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
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