Kinderen raken alleen maar verward van dat soort dingen denk ik.
Die kans bestaat, al is dat nog niet onderzocht. Mijn kinderen zijn echt nog een beetje te jong (de oudste is nog maar 7), dus voorlopig heb ik nog geen idee hoe psychedelica op kinderen zouden overkomen. Maar ik denk er wel veel over na.
je hebt een bepaalde ervaring nodig om te plaatsen wat het eigenlijk voor iets is.
Tot op zekere hoogte wellicht. Maar ik ben daar nog niet helemaal van overtuigd. Je zou ook kunnen zeggen dat het leven van een kind zorgelozer is, ze in de regel minder last hebben van lichamelijke ongemakken (zoals ik, tijdens elke trip baal ik enorm van mijn rugpijn en RSI) of lichamelijke verlangens, en hun denken nog niet opgezadeld met geloof, fanatiek atheïsme, of new age sentimentaliteit, en ze daardoor juist veel beter met de ervaring om kunnen gaan.
Ja, er zijn vele voorbeelden van mislukt hippie-ouderschap of hippie-pedagogie te vinden (om nog maar te zwijgen van reli-ouderschap en reli-pedogagie), maar het gaat hier wel om de heilige paddestoel!

De enige relevante voorbeelden die we hier hebben is het gegeven dat Leary LSD gaf aan kinderen vanaf 9 jaar oud, en dat onder veel natuurvolkeren de overgang naar volwassenheid in de regel gevierd wordt met een ritueel (meestal gepaard met inname van de favoriete stamdrug) rond het 12e of 14e levensjaar. Van Leary noch de stammen zijn griezelverhalen bekend.
Oh, al googelend kwam ik net dit tegen:
According to the BBC, the first documented use of psychedelic mushrooms was in the Medical and Physical Journal: in 1799, a man who had been picking mushrooms for breakfast in Londons Green Park included them in his harvest, accidentally sending his entire family on a trip. The doctor who treated them later described how the youngest child was attacked with fits of immoderate laughter, nor could the threats of his father or mother refrain him.
I found more information about this subject on the website of MAPS, specifically these two articles (the children having a spirit walk, with Peyote, between the ages of 12 and 14 (oeps, ik was even vergeten dat dit het Nederlandstalige deel van het forum is):
"Joy's initiation into the entheogen community came with a spirit walk shortly after her fourteenth birthday. She was mature but far from an adult. Joe, who had been in trouble at the tender age of eleven, was initiated the summer of his twelfth birthday. Tristan had his first spirit walk last summer. He's thirteen. We chose to allow our children to participate in a spirit walk during adolescence because it is a time of great physical and emotional change. We felt the peyote would help the kids remember who they were and where they came from. Through the Spirit Walk, peyote helps us to realize that we are not our bodies. We occupy them for a short time, and then we are gone. Our bodies die, but that which is truly ourselves continues.
Raising children to have a healthy spiritual attitude about entheogens in a hostile Drug War climate is challenging, but I think a few general conclusions can be drawn from our experience. As parents and caregivers, we must be aware of the example and environment we provide for our children, as they are constantly learning from the examples, good and bad, of others. If children witness a daily demonstration of devotion and reverence towards entheogens, they will recognize the spiritual nature of entheogens."
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v14n2-html/parenting_peyote_way.html
"A few weeks after his peyote experience, my son independently became interested in Buddhism. On his own he found a local Taoist temple and started going to it every Sunday. And he became a vegetarian. I had to cook his meals sepa- rately since we all ate meat. I think his self- esteem was greater after this experience. He pondered spiritual things more."
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v14n2-html/mother_son_peyote_ritual.html
Complete overview of articles on Rites Of Passage here:
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v14n2-html/