Are psychedelics really this popular, or is lemmy just full of people that like them? I had assumed they were a rather niche thing, but the sentiment towards them here today (and not just this post either) seems notably positive, though the descriptions people give sound existentially horrifying to me. Then again, I get anxious enough towards drugs that Ive not even tried alcohol let alone anything less common, so maybe I’m just the weirdo here.

my theory is:

psychadelics open your mind to love

love makes you more aligned with leftist ideas

lemmy is a decentralised place that was popularised by people with leftist ideas leaving other platforms

an average lemmy user is more likely to have taken psychadelics than the average twitter user