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I've taken doses exceeding 1000mcg. I've also done heroic amounts of both mescaline and mushrooms. I've broken through on DMT a couple times, but turned down an opportunity to do ayuasca. These days I keep it to a maximum of two strong trips per year. Feels like I'm defragging the hard drive in my gray matter pc. I've had a few rough times, but nothing I regret.

Drugs are drugs, no matter what reason might be attributed to their use.

A lot of modern music is trance inducing, and drums and bass play a major role in that. Trance inducing music isn't necessarily a bad thing, it just depends on who is inducing that trance and to what end. I'll give you a good example, compare the song WAP to Papa Was a Rolling Stone by the Temptations. Both pieces were hits in the ghettos, both feature nigger artists, but one feels pure and the other feels like McDonald's made music. Both are trance inducing, but there's a huge difference in what they're trying to accomplish.

Drums kind of enhance and emphasize the rhythm of a song. It's kind of like a subtle and more effective and interesting version of someone counting and adding emphasis on certain numbers.

To use simple examples if there's an emphasis on the 2nd and 4th beats, one might count 1 2! 3 4! (putting more volume and intensity where ! indicates). If it's on the 1st and 3rd, you might count 1! 2 3! 4. It creates this sort of high peak then lower peak effect and helps enhance the feel of movement.

Such use of drums/percussion is mostly absent from classical music and essentially makes it boring to most people. There's even some classical albums that add a simple boom click drum beat to get modern listeners interested. Classical was more of the bougie and church music. Outside of that people played simple folk tunes. I honestly don't know the history of percussion before the 20th century, but around 1900 they did have street bands using a bass and snare and sometimes a crash cymbal. Actually, this is the reason for holding the snare drum stick upside-down, and it has no purpose on an actual drum set. If you hold sticks like a beer mug, the right hand would go out the top and the left out the bottom if you were carrying a bass drum with a snare drum on the left side of it. With the snare out that way, it's the most ergonomic to hit the snare with the stick out the bottom and not top.

Anyway, as the 20th century progressed we began to see staples of the drum set added such as the hi-hat to keep a steady count often times (1, 2, 3, 4) as you dance between bass and snare. There were crash cymbals that often emphasize the 4 or 1 beat. There's the ride cymbal that gives you a different way to emphasize (1, 2, 3, 4), and a minimum of two toms to do drum fills that are often used to push transitions to another section.

Outside of this there seem to be other percussion instruments that can be used to sort of enhance the flow and feeling of movement in ways other drums can't. Examples are congas and bongos but there are many more.

Generally, drumming will make music more intense and doing that is the devil. Just ask Bobby Bouche's mom.

Yes

Words like violence
break the silence
Come crashing in into my little world

No. You're Richard Spencer

I'm not sure. They're pop garbage, but objectively not much worse than any other manufactured boy band. I have used a couple of their tracks during workouts because it makes me think about murdering the whole band. Ruins my mood though.