Six years ago, on a work trip to London, James suddenly couldn’t read the text on his computer screen. It wasn’t just a glitch; looking around, he realized his whole visual field was filled with static. When he went to the hospital, he told a nurse that he had taken psychedelic mushrooms in Amsterdam with a friend the week before. “She said, ‘This is why we don’t do drugs,’” James said, now 31 and using a pseudonym to protect his privacy.
Her response “made it clear that most doctors I would see wouldn’t have much help to offer”, he said.
