In the correct setting, psychedelics can critically alter one's view on the world and themselves. This is very powerful, but very unknown. We must tread on light ground when approaching these substances. So, more research must be done under the right trip settings, but not in haste.
I mean, there should be at least some haste here. 50k healthy people a year die from suicide in the US alone. And that's the official number, it supposedly missed a lot of people who "fall" off of bridges and crash cars alone at very high speed into stationary, well lit obstacles while sober and healthy...
For comparison, AIDS kills about 13k. About 16k people died from (non suicide) handgun injuries. Even All Cancers caused 600k deaths. Curing depression would be the same as curing 1/12th of all cancers...
I agree, regardless of the numbers, there is a problem, but if SSRI's are not the problem, maybe getting people the help they need is the problem. Perhaps instead, many of those people hypothetically are chronic alcoholics, or maybe they are recovering opioid addicts who cannot deal with withdrawal and don't have the help they need ( Actually, psychedelics work wonders when trying to beat addictions ) .
My point is, you can't associate a rising number of suicide cases and believe there's a definite cause and solution.
It is not a black and white problem, and for that matter imho nether is "suicide and depression." Those two things are caused by so many infinite externalities in life, we cannot point to a solution with any sort of confident conviction.
In essence I see that and hear this:
"Oh look, that suicide statistic is caused by "XXX", and "YYY" is the solution.
It's more like...
"Oh look, that suicide statistic is caused by problems "X&$Y#", "DLKJER)(", "DOEKDHT&", "$%&DHTJ" ETC., and there are a ton of solutions for each problem.
TLDR:
we should legalize psychedelics for recreational use, not limited to medical purposes
