so john lennon takes lsd, and concludes that he is jesus christ and believes this strongly enough to tell a fan even the next day after it has worn off and you don't think that is a problem? i assume you believe john lennon really was jesus christ then? after john lennon stopped using lsd because he couldn't handle the bad trips he was having, he developed addictions to cocaine and heroin. once again, how do you not see that as a problem? it doesn't seem much like jesus like behavior.
no one ever says it because most people are smart enough not to make up statistics. if you're telling me no one has ever said drugs can have an incredibly positive affect on mental health, you need to review your history because quite a few people have said that. i'm going to show you one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary
you're retarded. acid in the beatles time was incredibly potent. a threshhold dose will last sumthing like 6-8 hours (this would be an incredibly mild trip) most trips however, last around 12-14 hours. an intense enough trip at a ridiculous dose, however, can last days, weeks, months, years, and sumtimes a natural lifetime. so keeping in mind 1. how good acid wus back in the day and 2. lennon was an experienced tripper and prolly took high doses, its very possible he was tripping into the next day. it seems like it would hav to be a nutty, long ass intense trip for you to think ur JC. it is also possible lennon was just joking the next day. furthermore, you will find many rock musicians get addicted to coke and or heroin, and that the best way to fight an
addiction is to replace it. so his other addictions were probably not caused by acid.
and lastly- while i doubt the ratio is 100:1, and while i cant speak for other drugs, pyschedellics (lsd especially) are much more likely to help your mental health then deteriorate it. not government funded studies prove this. acid helps terminal patients cope with their death, helps addicts of all kinds, turns atheists faithful, makes depressed people happy, stimulates artistic, intellectual, and abstract thinking, and a couple other positive effects. alot of the worlds best, relatively recent music has been inspired by and sumtimes composed while on acid. tool's graphic designer- alex grey is psychedellically inspired. tool themselves are psychedllicallly inspired. both the guy who discovered the double helix nature of DNA, and the guy who discovered the modern day layout of the atom, were on acid wen they discovered that shit. A. Huxley's brave new world and hunter thompsons fear and loathing were both greatly inspired by acid. heard enough?
personally- acid helped prioritize my life, made me more spiritual, and made me appreciate the beauty of everyday life. most drugs make sobreity boring by comparison, but acid does the opposite, especially after bad trips.
acid is a beautiful and extremely theraputic drug with little to no long term effects (moderation is key in this) it has a bad wrap because of government paranoia and the usual DEA scare tactics bullshit that hav little to no basis in truth. sure its not for everyone and can excaerbate mental illness. so dont do acid without a psychiatric evaluation and dont abuse the drug. dont do it if ur a bitch who cant handle their shit and gets paranoid from weed. if u jump out of a building cus you think you can fly, your a dumbass for not trying from the ground first