I swear, one of the most import pieces of research that needs to be done on them is their capability to induce a false sense of the profound, and make people believe psychedelics will fix everything about the world.<p>Yes, they can be useful, they can make you see yourself differently and see people differently. But they can equally be a pretty blinkenlight show that makes you giggle for hours with friends. Or be distressing for people.<p>More than that, nobody has yet been able to tell me how this post-acid utopia is going to function any differently from what we have now.<p>There&#x27;s a reason that the majority of post-summer-of-love communes failed.