Very good point about our emotions being a proper response to our environment. Psychedelics are not meant to be an escape from the hammering of everyday life (see also: meditation, yoga, alcohol, exercise, drugs, sex, and on and on).

Having journeyed with 5-ME0-DMT and ayahuasca, and not currently pursuing either one, I feel the purpose of these experiences is not to reduce stress but to teach us how to be better citizens of the universe. To advance and evolve so that we bring more love to this plane of existence.

But I could be wrong. In either case I really enjoyed your writing.