What? You thought the Sixties were over? Don’t be silly.
“Scientists” say using psychedelic drugs increases the user’s lifespan by 50% or more (https://news.emory.edu/stories/2025/07/hs_psilocybin_aging_study_10-07-2025/story.html).
Okay. So where do we find some of those 150-year-old acid-heads? I’ve met psychedelic drug users, but none of them seemed unusually long-lived. But maybe their lives only seemed a lot longer. I cannot believe they were enjoying themselves at the time. Mostly they were freaking out and very badly needed someone to take care of them.
I suspect Democrats are filing away this report for use in the next election.
It never ends.
Every drug user I’ve ever known ended up doing poorly in life unless they kicked the habit.
In Colorado you can grow your own magic mushrooms. What a lie psychedelic drugs will make you live longer.
So let’s see all these ancient pot-heads!
That doesn’t surprise me one bit. Every visit I’ve made to Colorado since they relaxed their drug laws has turned into a study of social degeneration. You used to have to travel to Boulder if you wanted to see someone blitzed out on drugs, but now it’s statewide, and I avoid so much as driving through the place I used to think of as my beloved home state.
I personally have never known one drug user who was better off for it. Some years ago, I got to spend a day with a very famous Jazz musician who had recovered from being a heroin addict. He was quite open about his past addiction, and made a strong point of letting people know that drugs did not enhance his creativity or make him a better player. He said that recordings made when he was using drugs sounded bad to him, and he could easily identify those recordings, just by the way he sounded.
Perhaps they will isolate some component of psilocybin which has therapeutic value, and if they do, perhaps they can make this available as a medication that does not induce hallucination. They’ve done something similar with CBD oils, which contain no THC and is not considered psychoactive. I’m all for medical progress, but not if it involves getting wasted on psychoactive drugs.
I wonder how many times I’ve heard “But drugs make you more creative!”
The 1960s have a lot to answer for.
That’s the biggest load of crap ever foisted on the public. I’ve done creative things; written songs, improvised Jazz solos, etc. Having your consciousness at a reduced level does not make for creative outcomes. Playing music while anxious is not a good situation, but drugs don’t cure anxiety, merely masking it, instead. Building such a dependency is an express ticket to not being creative.