Comment by stronglikedan

8 months ago

> I read in a forum about...

...something that likely never happened (and if it did, it wasn't the LSD)

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mycodendral 8 months ago

People jump out of windows/off roofs all the time on psychedelics.

dymk 8 months ago
No they do not, the instances of this are incredibly small, and every one of them involved the use of alcohol or other drugs.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21256914/
- mycodendral 8 months ago
  
  I don't buy it, personally. I used to be a big psych guy until I had multiple friends get in dangerous police situations because of them. And I've heard a lot more individual stories. Pretty much every psychedelic festival has people ending up in the security/medical tent. It's not as risk free as people will have you believe.
  
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stickfigure 8 months ago
The AI overlords call bullshit on that.
The nutshell quote: "Jumping from heights under psychedelics is possible but statistically extraordinary—orders of magnitude rarer than popular mythology suggests."
- settsu 8 months ago
  
  The chances of being struck by lightning are exceedingly slim. But if you're venturing out on a mountain top in early summer your odds skyrocket. So shouldn't we widely inform people who are doing so of the dangers and what to be aware of?
  https://www.cdc.gov/lightning/data-research/index.html
- mycodendral 8 months ago
  
  Maybe heights specifically, but hang out at the medical tent at any decent size music festival and tell me psychedelics are as harm-free as people suggest.