While the effects of LSD and its relatives show immediate and attributable manifestations, other "psychotropic" substances have brought on raging outcomes like mass shootings, suicidal episodes, and wrecked families that because of the permanent mental changesm are no longer treatable.
LSD and its obvious effects was left in the dust, but by 1971 all other kinds of mind-changers came onto the drugs market, making fortunes for their inventors, the certified psychiatrists who publicized them, and the GPs who were able to prescribe any blend the patient desired (and became irretrievably dependent on them).
Robert Whitaker, the medical journalist, has been writing about this for some time. The development of his interes is described here, in "Confessions of a Trespasser" (click here), a recounting of being drawn into reporting the covering of a mass of contrary evidence by the medical profession itself.
The LSD story here is only the beginning of a long history of medical abuse through these drugs. No one alive in the America of today has escaped being touched by this great fraud.
the demonstrated fact that marijuana use also increases the odds of developing schizophrenia is conveniently scuttled even here on FR. Many believe it is Nature’s Wonder Drug (at this point so highly messed with there’s almost nothing natural about it) to cure every ailment from cancer to asthma to your basic skin rash. Apparently there is nothing it can’t do s/