Guess what - you're missing out on a fentanyl high, so awesome that people sell all they have to get more!
I do wonder what the actual odds are of getting injured by psilocybin though.
[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risky.html
[2] https://www.ghsa.org/resources/Pedestrians23
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
Most people who are licensed to drive are unlikely to have a negative reaction from the act of driving for 2 hours under controlled conditions. The same can not be said (at all) about use of mind altering substances, given the mind cannot necessarily be controlled. Set and setting.
Also, you can control your own dose. I've never heard of anyone encountering any long term side effects from trying a single low dose of psilocybin. Especially since some studies show that very low doses aren't any different than placebo.
Then again most people don't start with a very low dose and ramp up slowly because people are human and do dumb things.
More importantly, driving a car gets me where I want to be, not just triggers an unexpected condition bug in my brain.
I think it's irresponsible to tell people to take this or that drug since we still don't have good numbers on the risks. But I also think telling people to completely abstain is dumb, and the government trying to enforce complete abstinence even more dumb.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/health/alpha-gal-ticks-me...
