[aarobot]

Why does the author admit they used illegal drugs?

[kruuuder]

More people should do that. This will help create reasonable drug laws better than the laws we currently have in most countries, too many of which are based on ideology, fiction and religious moral attitudes.

[barry-cotter]

Because unless you are an author who gets famous and writes about using drugs all the time and practically nothing else[1] no one except the police care. Everyone over 30 knows that every professional workplace has habitual coke users, that a large majority of artists/musicians/art teachers/bar tenders/chefs are currently or were previously users of weed or LSD.

[1] https://pen.org/press-clip/british-author-barred-for-moral-t...

[jmcgough]

MDMA will probably be regularly used for psycholytic therapy within the next decade and likely see legalization in the same cities that're legalizing psychedelics right now. It has a lot of potential for treating PTSD, trauma and anxiety, and most of the danger is around impure pressings, exhaustion, water toxicity, etc.

Personally, it helped me a lot with learning how to open up to and trust people. I used to think I was an introvert, but I really just had severe social anxiety from a difficult upbringing.

[omgomgomgomg]

Many reasons.

The event is too far back in the past to be proven and prosecuted.

And in the uk and europe, the governments will not go after such things,maybe europe is a bit more free than other countries in that regard.

And once the uk was past this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneezer_Goode , it became mainstream.

[stuaxo]

It's just not that unusual in the UK, Es really aren't on the same level as opiates for instance.

[zoover2020]

Same in other parts of Europe. Current population of 18-30 year olds for sure has a majority of people who tried MDMA or other psychedelics

[fastball]

Indeed, arguably the biggest risk from taking ecstasy is because it is illegal and therefore has a higher potential to be cut with substances that are much more likely to cause users harm.

[nibbleshifter]

Why not?

You can't be charged for using drugs in civilized countries.

Possession might be illegal, but past consumption is not.

[deafpolygon]

It's rarely a crime to use drugs. It's a crime to have some in your possession in most cases. You can't prosecute for drug usage.

[hericium]

iirc in Sweden you can't have drugs in your bloodstream.

[kstenerud]

Why not? It's not testimony under oath.

[andybak]

Honesty?