Is Dropping Acid a Cure for Old Age?

While I have recently posted on the mounting evidence that chronic
use of even a mild mind altering substance like cannabis likely
causes brain damage, I did include the caveat that occasional use of
such substances in certain settings may well be regenerative. It
certainly makes sense from a TCM perspective that a substance that
has an opening effect on the mind may clear the veils on perception,
but if used regularly (to use chinese medical dogma), like all "orifice opening" substances, one will burn up their "yin" and begin to go mad. Albert Hoffman, who discovered LSD, turned 100 today and by all accounts is quite robust. But he was never a fan of the Kesey or Leary crowd with their drug-abusing tendencies. He favored restrained use of the substances others indulged themselves in, some to quite an early death. Hoffman may well be a poster child (poster sage?) for the dictum that because a little may be good, more is definitely not better.