Does the medicine always give you what we need?

As Rick Doblin said this month, the backlash to psychedelics 'will come if we exaggerate the results and minimize the risks'.

A graph from our survey of 608 psychonauts who reported difficulties after a trip, asking how long their post-trip difficulties lasted

When I was 18, I took LSD at a rave, and had a bad trip. I felt irrationally afraid and self-conscious for hours, and went to bed feeling I had permanently damaged my brain. Over the next few weeks, I felt paranoid, panic…