>I'm not sure that this person's background, education, or employer is indicative of the degree of reasonable hope
How is it not indicative? Someone with a graduate degree from Stanford who works at YouTube as an engineer should have above average intelligence? If we believe the prestige of Stanford and Google then world class intelligence. Yet this person couldn’t responsibly take LSD or correctly test it. He lost his mind and went on a violent rampage that hurt a lot of innocent people.
>LSD (along with all other drugs) needs to be made legal and regular so that it becomes easy to obtain a quality-controlled dose.
That’s fine, as long as people pay the price of doing something irresponsibly and innocent people aren’t harmed by it. Do it in a controlled environment with a guide.