Is there any evidence for the benefits of psychedelic drugs that isn't pseudoscience...

>being autistic and focusing on semantics

Wew.

Oh I guess I am stupid. I understand you now and you're correct.

That's just linguistics pal. When talking about people, 99% = everyone.

Tbf it's an important distinction

This is a good analogy. At the very least it's generally not harmful and it can help people work through life issues and make connections they might otherwise not have made.

This is the only board on this website where the distinction between everyone and "everyone" is important and not semantics. Saying "autism" is not an argument, either.

Not him, but no, it's not semantic. Science is about precise claims, precise hypotheses, precise predictions, and precisely-defined observations and evidence. They literally have different meanings.

The more information you present and study these with, the more information you gain about the natural world.

If you mean seeing a particular statistically significant benefit in the general population (of course there will be bad trips and misfires) as I assume you do, it's important to explore various clearly defined, objective benefits that we can test, if we want to get meaningful conclusions.

This is notoriously difficult when we're not treating specific diseases. Nootropics research identifies and measures various components of cognitive ability and the compounds' effects on them, if any, but a huge amount of them are marketed and sold without compelling evidence. Even worse, the specific marketing strategy is to ignore the "trite" parameters we can study, hiding behind a veil of "generalized well being." This is the tactic of the snake oil salesman, and it's only tolerance for imprecision that gives him his power.

If you mean it purely colloquially, then as an avid psychonaut I'd say yes. That answer really isn't useful, though, and really doesn't tell you anything.

I know many people with messed up brains who don't do drugs and many without who don't

Once I did mushrooms and cried in the back yard about how dragons use optimal foraging theory to lure their prey to them.

I legitimately think that some dude weed lmao is good every now and then. Having a smoke and then thinking over some things can give me an entirely different perspective on the matter.