Agreed. MDMA is a more interesting one. I don’t know if repeated use has been studied much in terms of side effects but I have heard it can lower your ability to experience pleasure. Also more potential for abuse and problems while on it given it makes everything seem “cool”.
If I had to wager right now, assuming it really does have enough therapeutic value to warrant mainstream medical use, I'd bet it would be a one-time or very rarely used thing. Otherwise you'll risk that, like with ketamine, people are really just using it to get high with questionable therapeutic benefit and lots of potential for abuse and perverse incentives. (among other potential side effects from the drug itself)
I think the case for widespread use of LSD is far weaker than for psilocybin for various reasons, this being one of them.
Agreed. MDMA is a more interesting one. I don’t know if repeated use has been studied much in terms of side effects but I have heard it can lower your ability to experience pleasure. Also more potential for abuse and problems while on it given it makes everything seem “cool”.
If I had to wager right now, assuming it really does have enough therapeutic value to warrant mainstream medical use, I'd bet it would be a one-time or very rarely used thing. Otherwise you'll risk that, like with ketamine, people are really just using it to get high with questionable therapeutic benefit and lots of potential for abuse and perverse incentives. (among other potential side effects from the drug itself)