Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
Has someone that thought they were taking LSD <i>ever</i> turned into a permanent schizophrenic zombie or in a mental institution, or is it all urban legend. If someone that didn&#x27;t know they were predisposed to mental illness, is it applicable to dismiss their experience in order to maintain how safe LSD is?<p>If any of this is true, are there any sources aside from &quot;my friend&#x27;s friend&#x27;s brother took too much and now he is....&quot;, and what is the scientific explanation and do we know enough about the mind at all?<p>I feel like LSD has a lot of contradictory information out there, and the proponents feel the need to hand waive concerns away because it is &#x27;completely harmless and leaves your system in 10 hours&#x27;. But when nobody knows what they&#x27;re actually getting because it doesn&#x27;t exist in a legal framework, then it muddies the whole experience.<p>People say certain doses can&#x27;t do more effect than lower doses after a certain threshold. It seems like the same people say &quot;omg man 1000ug you are going to fry your brain!&quot;<p>What is the truth? If it &quot;just&quot; had an FDA warning like &quot;people with a family history of schizophrenia should not take it&quot;, that would be wildly better than what we have today.<p>Please no explanation about shrooms. Just LSD the &#x27;research chems&#x27; distributed as LSD.