^Point taken.
I still see no real recreational value in psychedelics, and I don't know how some can "abuse" them as they would other drugs, such as tripping monthly or every two weeks. Perhaps it's a personal bias, but to me psychedelics are powerful drugs that are really a once-in-a-long-while type of thing. I have no interest in using them because they're not my type of drug, and I just cannot seem to realize the appeal of them that some may see.
To each their own.
There's certainly no need to use any particular kind of drug regularly, and especially not to force yourself to like something that just doesn't appeal to you. Everyone has different wants and needs and whatever makes you happy you should stick with.
For me though, psychedelics are practically the only drugs with any lasting recreational value. Certain ones are powerful or draining enough that I don't want to use them very often like you say, but certainly not all of them. LSD makes me very delirious and sends me on a very psychologically provoking and engaging journey and mushrooms put me on a sometimes challenging emotional rollercoaster, and as a result I don't feel the need to use them as much either now that I really understand them, but I can still take 4-HO-MET to have a great trip with beautiful visuals and rich imagery similar to both of them, a radiating warmth type of euphoria, the traditional feelings of enhanced sensory appreciation and connection to music and nature and such, and no significant side effects, without any of the demanding or crushing feelings the heavy trips on the classics can have, just a gorgeous high with beautiful hallucinations lasting half a dozen hours or so and leaving a refreshing afterglow. That's something I can certainly enjoy doing regularly at least as much as any other type of recreational high!
I will admit that I still used to enjoy taking things like LSD and mushrooms more frequently too, but I had a
lot of psychological junk to sort through back then, and the more time goes by the more I find myself shifting into this new mindset, away from the really heavily mental or emotional trips and toward the ones that I can enjoy either just for the sensory pleasures, the sense of exploration, the intellectual and creative stimulation, and/or the refreshing euphoria. Of course, I happened to do a lot of my early explorations with tryptamines, and so now I'm finding myself with a really heavy bias toward those more mental trips as far as my options go... but there are still some that stand out as being more recreational. In addition to 4-HO-MET, I also really enjoy 4-HO-EPT for being able to produce a sense of euphoria that is clean on the body and strongly satisfying in an LSD-like way despite producing very little mental, emotional, or even visual alteration. 5-MeO-MiPT is one that really has my attention too, my one experience was extremely hallucinogenic despite it not being for many people, some of the richest visuals I've ever seen, and I still felt incredibly grounded and calm for it. That really appealed to my artistic side especially, it was basically like a clear window into a beautiful alternate reality.
I could go on, but the point is... they each have their own uses and restrictions, there really isn't much that you can just say "psychedelic drugs are" in general. They all do have this one similar omnipresent vibe that makes them feel psychedelic and makes sense since they all share a 5-HT2A agonist mechanism, but the way it's expressed through much more obvious subjective effects can vary so much from one substance to the next, it's ultimately unimportant in the final decision of just what each individual psychedelic is useful for. And it can vary a lot, from the typical earth-shattering, life-changing trips, to the visual feasts, to the meditative highs, to the empathogenic social buzzes, to the two-day music festival mindfucks, to the ones you do just to have your preconceived notions of what your senses can do blown apart, and so on and so forth....
Nonetheless, I don't think I would care about any of that beyond trying it just to know what it's like if I didn't like the way psychedelics make me feel, but I really, really do. And as a psychedelic enthusiast, part of what makes me so excited to explore so many of them is that they are just so wide-ranging like this, they're a class of powerful recreational drugs that has been very well-investigated compared to many and they have a lot to show for it. I don't see any reason not to make use of it when I have so many options, and since I also just find the whole topic fascinating and retain my youthful love of exploring new altered states despite being more cautious in general now, it just seems like a great opportunity to make my life that much better, my favorite type of high that I feel genuinely helps me and that I have no problems feeling frequently, in every possible form for every possible purpose. Why not take it?
That's my perspective on it all.
