I can certainly say what puts people OFF taking mushrooms, and thats debates and trip reports, because most of them are taken the wrong way by someone who does not understand it, probably even sounds scary. On low doeses of shrooms, if you have a bad trip, it's more than likely youre own fault for having an expectation or fear. My advice is just listen to anyone who has nothing but good to say about them, and dose a sensible amount your first time. That's exactly what I did and I have never had a single bad trip on mushrooms. I've had loads on DMT, and even had some serious paranoid hours smoking weed, but mushrooms, never.
Then are not neurotoxic, they don't absorb through the flesh like acid does, so you can abort a scary trip by inducing vomiting (though I can't imagine someone going crazy on just one gram of cubensis, it seems highly unlikely).
It's fun, it's frivolous, its insightfull, it makes sense and nonsense, it makes you want to laugh and chill, and dance and just be GOOD. It makes you connect with others in ways you never even thought possible.
This is my experience, but if you keep an open mind and just enjoy it, you will LOVE it. I understand everyone is different, but if someone really is stubborn enough to make a low dose shroom trip really difficult for themselves, then they should learn from that. You do it to yourself, and you will never know how good you can feel, beyond your imagination, because you just would not let it go. It took me years to get to that point, and mushrooms came into my life at the right time.
But for goodness sake at least try it, or else you don't deserve to feel AMAZING.
Just my two cents, do it or don't. It sounds like your friend needs some education on the matter, prejudice would be the first thing to be CRUSHED by reality, which is infact, much better than the lies

Happy days!
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