Ironically enough this is exactly what the tone for drugs was in the early mid sixties. Then the summer of love happened and people couldn't ignore tweens whoring themselves out for smack because they expanded their consciousness first.
Look at the size of the average American. They can't handle cheese responsibly. But we're supposed to think that now they'll manage acid?
Even single doses of acid are enough to change your outlook on life _substantially_. Imagine running a db migration on prod while it's live and you have no backups.
This is what consousness tinkering with drugs is like.
Replace reading music with writing in assembly and you have the software equivalent. People can write software without a higher level language, but their software will be better if they did. The same is true for musicians and reading sheet music.