Yeah, i found the video rather funny and accurate, which is rather uncommon from the rare videos i watch about psychedelics. I typically dislike most videos to do with psychedelics. It just feels like a lazy format for something this potent.
My concern is more about whether this rapid exposure is going to be bad for society, the entheogenic community and/or the plants themselves.
For the same series, there is a video titled: "I Ate $800 Shrooms - Tales from the Trip".
The use of monetary value to depict sacred mushrooms just seems reckless, and i know that it's meant to be clickbait-y. Sort of like it's encouraging people to buy their shrooms rather than ID/pick them or grow them oneself.
Someone on chat mentioned they were talking to someone who has done DMT a fair few times, and described it as "pretty expensive". This person had no idea it came from nature, or that it can be extracted relatively easily and affordably. My concern with the psychedelic renaissance is very intimately linked to my concern about the general science knowledge from the population at large. People from non-STEM disciplines aren't taught to critically think. Many conspiracy theorist truthers think that all scientists agree with each other all the time, that's why there is a global conspiracy. If only they knew that it is actually other scientists who rip theories to shreds, to observe whether it holds up in reality. Science conferences are often heated warzones, a battle of theories, hypotheses and egos.
Perhaps i'm way too cynical, but that's just in my nature.
