Psychedelic Drugs Analysis

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Psychedelic drugs are used in various ways and there's been some debate about psychedelic drugs incorparated into the lives of humans. In my opinion, the use of psychedelic drugs are okay and the effects of taking this drug lead to more positive than negative reactions. Based on the article, the writer explains that psychedelic drugs can be harmless and beneficial when it's taken appropriately. Therefore, If psychedelic drugs can provide something very valuable to humans or not, we can ingested it in moderation and be perfectly fine. Then the writer continues to write about the different ways that psychedelic drugs are being used, one way that psychedelics are being used is in religion. Something that interested me greatly because I usually

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