Innovators are weird to begin with. Otherwise they couldn't resist the social pressure to be normal, get a 'proper job' and so on. Living on the edge keeps their minds active and creative. Plus they expect pushback for their innovations. So they're going to be militantly weird in some areas, maybe compensating for this by concealing their proclivities elsewhere.
(This makes sense if you consider that the greater part of being normal is trying hard to appear normal.)
Now psychedelics are personality-altering substances. As such they have the potential to make you considerably more weird or less weird than you were to begin with.
It follows that psychedelic innovation entails a double whammy of weirdness. It would have been enough to push a proportion of the pioneers over the edge.
(This makes sense if you consider that the greater part of being normal is trying hard to appear normal.)
Now psychedelics are personality-altering substances. As such they have the potential to make you considerably more weird or less weird than you were to begin with.
It follows that psychedelic innovation entails a double whammy of weirdness. It would have been enough to push a proportion of the pioneers over the edge.