I have had the most beautiful lifechanging experiences of my life on LSD. LSD led me to realising my soulmate. It also induced a mystical experience that cured my eating disorder. I will never deny the beautiful potential of psychedelics for healing and mind expansion.

That said, psychedelics in general CAN be very dangerous for certain people. Especially those with PTSD or any form of psychosis. This risk is rare, but it does happen.

My soulmate had several beautiful LSD experiences with me. However he started taking mushrooms far too often (every week) while also heavily using cannabis gummies. This was imo, abusing the drug. It culminated in a full blown psychotic break which made him believe a dear friend who was with him at the time was a murderer and a terrorist and he shot her, believing he was acting in self defence. She died. He's now in prison for manslaughter.

Part of what led him to thinking it was OK to take mushrooms irresponsibly was because of all the narratives about her mushrooms are the safest drug, psychedelics treat mental illness etc.

A similar psychotic break happened to a Canadian student called Thomas Chan, who believed his mother and father were demons during his break from reality, and he stabbed them both, killing his father and severely wounding his mother.

Neither my soulmate, nor Thomas Chan, are bad people. Nor are psychedelics inherently bad or always harmful. But they CAN ruin your life if you take them in an unsafe setting, in a mindset that is paranoid or even just bored, if you have a history of psychosis or anything similar.