You really need to define the words "severre mental health challenge". For me personally, I have had depression to the point of attempted suicide, driven by intense perpetual pain. I have had nearly 2 decades on prescription anti depression and anti anxiety drugs too. Other than leaving me as little more than a drooling idiot (or so it felt) they did nothing for me. In 2015, I decided I had had enough of these prescription drugs. That first year, I took LSD between once a month and once every six weeks. After the very first re-encounter with them since my youth, I felt so much better. By the end of the year, I had quit smoking. Not because I had to or had been told to, but because I didn't need cigarettes to (according to my then thinking) hold it together any more. Now, I might experience LSD (and it really is an experience) once or twice a year. Yeah, it could be called recreational but just like having a day at a massage spa, it simply gives me a sense of doing me good. Sure, I would happily use mushrooms. But that pain came from spinal injuries and will always be there. So groping around on the floor of a field is simply impractical and if i was seen / reported as picking them, I wouldn't stand a chance of getting away from the police. Hand on heart, it is way past time that doctors were able to prescribe these medicines and it is even more way past times that our archaic drug laws were re-evaluated and brought into a state of being that is created by science and fact rather than by gossip and deliberate misinformation!!
You really need to define the words "severre mental health challenge". For me personally, I have had depression to the point of attempted suicide, driven by intense perpetual pain. I have had nearly 2 decades on prescription anti depression and anti anxiety drugs too. Other than leaving me as little more than a drooling idiot (or so it felt) they did nothing for me. In 2015, I decided I had had enough of these prescription drugs. That first year, I took LSD between once a month and once every six weeks. After the very first re-encounter with them since my youth, I felt so much better. By the end of the year, I had quit smoking. Not because I had to or had been told to, but because I didn't need cigarettes to (according to my then thinking) hold it together any more. Now, I might experience LSD (and it really is an experience) once or twice a year. Yeah, it could be called recreational but just like having a day at a massage spa, it simply gives me a sense of doing me good. Sure, I would happily use mushrooms. But that pain came from spinal injuries and will always be there. So groping around on the floor of a field is simply impractical and if i was seen / reported as picking them, I wouldn't stand a chance of getting away from the police. Hand on heart, it is way past time that doctors were able to prescribe these medicines and it is even more way past times that our archaic drug laws were re-evaluated and brought into a state of being that is created by science and fact rather than by gossip and deliberate misinformation!!