Together they edited a book of Aldous Huxley's essays about mind-altering drugs. |
One consequence of this is that taking mind-altering drugs with a high risk of rationality-reducing side effects is of dubious rationality. |
You have remarked that mind-altering drugs offer only a hint of the transcendental experience that many people seek by using them. |
After all, if you're disposed to mind-altering drugs, it's easy just to swallow, smoke, sniff, or lick them. |
And I grant you, smoking is a very efficient way to get mind-altering drugs such as nicotine, marijuana, cocaine, or heroin into the bloodstream and hence to the brain. |
If an over-the-counter medication could perhaps lead to these kinds of situations, imagine what a mind-altering drug like ecstasy could lead to. |