Is it not an assumption you knowing what works for other people?
Acid heads? Sounds really derogatory and yet you still take psychedelics and promote harm reduction? Interesting.
Wasn't that derogatory term used to demonize and marginalize particular groups during the sixties and seventies by the government?
We could talk about other derogatory and damaging labels used in society like the 'n' word. At what point does a black man become the 'n' word? And what point does he return to simply being a black man? At the convenience of the group when they feel ready to treat that man like a real person?
Lots of hateful loaded vitriol from someone who claims to be reducing harm. Interesting still.
I'm just pointing out these inconsistencies in your responses.
What is your evidence for frequent LSD being 'potentially delusional'? What evidence?
Apart from your 'acid head' test group who for the most part, you seem heavily biased towards demonizing at all costs because you're not their friends anymore, shame

Hardly empirical.
You worded your factual statement conveniently with the word 'potentially'. Interesting play on words there. I don't think science works that way and seeing as we are talking about harm reduction, science is a major focus for providing support. Psychedelics do come with the risk of experiencing psychotic symptoms but these are usually in those who have predisposed traits. People with depressive disorders and particularly with psychotic traits, BPD, bipolar, schizophrenia and personality disorders etc. And be careful with what you assume are delusions, which in fact could just be the confusion and/or negative thought loops, which are organic processes of the trip, and not indicative of illness. Overplaying the risk of psychosis is very peculiar when it's one of the least desirable aspects of a psychedelic experience. You don't associate driving with death, not unless you have an unhealthy preoccupation with harm, of which you could consider an obsession of some sort and therefore indicative of a disorder and therefore not based on something that exists outside of this disorder. Plenty of people have phobias but we don't live in a world where those phobias constitute functional reality, hence our understanding of them as disorders. Plenty of people with disorders take psychedelics and sure, they experience the symptoms of these disorders as they naturally would considering the nature of psychedelics.
Why the emphasis on something so negative though? You seem fixated on this connection. I found this interesting to begin with as it highlights your pattern of thinking. One which comes from the standpoint of pathology. You can pathologize everything. In politics, totalitarianism is synonymous with pathology. Outside of politics, that ideology lives within individuals as a self created prophecy. A brutal dictator of their own reality. That dictator? Ourselves. Our own beliefs. The consequences of this are far worse than any psychedelics. Maybe you are confusing the two because you cannot accept this?
Psychedelics only amplify what exists. If there is a repressive individual within yourself, you will expose this. One consisting of self deprecating qualities? It will be exposed in incessant self criticism, paranoia, distrust, anxiety and fear. Sure, people can experience this. Don't mistake this for psychedelics of varying doses being potentially delusional though. Plenty of people take psychedelics and do just fine. Plenty of people take lots of psychedelics and yup, they do just fine. You might not do fine but that's you. Don't ruin the party for everyone else, especially those dastardly 'acid heads', whoever they are.
Don't pretend to be looking out for others when you are capable of demonizing people who take acid frequently as 'acid heads' whenever they don't fit your warped reality.
This group of people do not exist, only in your imagination, and only because it makes YOU feel better about yourself being able to project your reality onto others, based on your experiences. And for someone talking about delusions, that's a bit rich. Who is delusional I wonder...
You'll get a big wake up call when you bring this level of toxicity into real harm reduction when the people you deal with will do the complete opposite of what you read from your completely fabricated holier than thou gospel of harm reduction, bound by the groupthink of online communities and collective dysfunction as a result.
People will come having ingested 2, 3, 5 times the amount that is 'recommended'. Are they 'acid heads'? Be careful what you say when their wellbeing lies in your hands. That level of duplicity has no place in offering people real authentic and unconditional support but you wouldn't know that because evidently you've spent a long time judging people solely on these rules of yours.
And correct, we are absolute strangers. Stop with the demonizing then. Stop professing to know what drug use is acceptable for other people.
Maybe let go of derogatory labels, which do absolutely nothing other than cause many of the problems people then end up taking psychedelics trying to process and integrate. If psychedelics are for therapy, what causes the need for therapy? I can bet being called names and lumped into boxes all their life have something to do with it.
You are a harm reduction expert, you should know this, right?
You know why people take drugs, right?
And most of the time, they start by trying to numb pain in some way.
You never know who is reading this and whether they have fit the 'acid head' label and how much it affected them. Then you see you harping on about delusions and then your so-called friends. Doesn't paint a good picture. Just like people with developmental disorders were once called retards. You really have no idea how deeply hurtful a word like retard can be and how it can stick. You are part of the problem if you do the same things as those causing the problems. I get it though. You're doing it from the side of 'helping' people, right? Here, let me help you while I label the f*ck out of you and create a reality you have to adhere to and if you don't, you're just another lost cause like my old friends...
Interesting.
Harm reduction?
If it is like you say it is, I think the cure is worse than the disease.
You don't mend sickness with more sickness
And as stated multiple times, my personal choice is to take psychedelics seldom. As already stated if you weren't looking for conformation bias in all my responses the last powerful LSD experience I had was almost a decade ago. The next powerful experience I had since then was last year with 5g of mushrooms in silent darkness. A decade apart is not heavy regular use my friend. If you can read between the lines, you would see where my stance is but again, you are hellbent on putting everybody into polarizing camps based on your own warped thinking which is based, as already stated, on YOUR personal subjective experience, negative experiences at that. If you cannot get over your negative experiences, you probably shouldn't be trying so hard to defend a debate that has you compromised by your own flaws. Deal with those flaws first and get better. Come back from a position of strength. Don't come to the debate with your flaws twisted round to reflect otherwise. That IS delusional. I personally wouldn't take regular sessions of psychedelics. I didn't enjoy taking DMT regularly and that is arguably the most powerful psychedelic. I never have taken psychedelics regularly. One time I did but it was LSD one day and then mescaline the other and so there was no crossover in tolerance, which was intended as we were tripping over the period of a weekend and wanted to try both in that limited period. As for everyone else, what say I doesn't matter. I fully respect that no matter what I believe, people will take 1ug or 1000ug and there is absolutely nothing I can do. And I'm fine with that

That's no problem to me. Whether you take 1ug or 1000ug, I accept you. My prejudices have no place in your right to experiment with your own consciousness. I can only do my best to facilitate your experimentation and much of that is done through presence and not intellectual masturbation, ego posturing and protocol. Although, protocol has it's rightful place; set and setting and all that jazz. Presence is something you have to master.
Then again, presence is how you turn up to life anyway. And that's something you have to practice. If you're done practicing how you turn up, you are no longer turning up.