We should have been colonizing the solar system by now.

[a geek named Bob]

530. okay then...

1.) I find your post personally abusive, so I must have touched a nerve.
2.) You made this personal, so here we go...
2a.) I'm not a fan of Nancy Reagan (sp?). The fact that you automatically assume I'll agree with her, just because I won't trust those taking drugs.
2b.) Science is all about testable hypotheses, based on observable data, yes? I've traveled a whole lot. I figure I've met (on average) at least 1 person per day, for over 30 years. That gives me a population of over 10,000. Given that I used to work with a rather suspect crowd, I met a lot of acid heads (roughly 1 in 10.) ALL of them though reality was "malleable." Not a good idea, if you want to create a safe design. ALL of them
2c.) Overdose doesn't only mean "cause of death." It can also mean (in this case) "cause of insanity."
2d.) as in all things of the street, Know Your Dealer is the useful credo. Can you trust the product in question? Any strychnine? Speed? PCP? If you can't rule those out, you are taking your life in your hands, or at least your mind.
3.) The FACT that science would be "hundreds of years behind?" As the burden of proof is on the accuser, you need to prove that one. Goddard dropped acid? (pretty much impossible.) Shrooms? unlikely, as New England doesn't have much of a crop, and he would have lost his job. Grass? (possibility, but again... you need to prove it...) How about Galileo? Got proof for that one? Newton? Vannevar Bush? (the guy who built the first computer.) How far you want to go with that one? It's like saying DaVinci was gay... Fact not in evidence.
4.) You're projecting... as to me, it looks like you are a drug evangelist.
5.) I stand behind each and every design I've worked out, and construction that I've built. Have you had your work checked by profs? cops? BATF? I have.

Personally, your flaming on this issue suggests that you are threatened by somebody (me) disparaging drug use.