Insanity and genius

According to the book "Gifted Children" (I can't remember, but it was published by either Harvard or Oxford University Press), insanity and creativity/genius are very closely linked.
Insanity is just being stuck in a state of subjectivity in which you cannot reconcile your own personal reality with that of everyone else. This can be both good and bad. Being totally subjective and having an overly active brain makes you inspired by the slightest detail, whether or not the inspiration is pleasant is another story. Think about how you would feel if every single detail you contacted in some way was important. We all have vast and intricate neural passage ways and so every little detail will have its own implications and both positive and negative connotations and whether you focus on the positive or the negative is entirely as random as your own brain. And brains are pretty freaking random.
It is my belief that the only way to possibly navigate insanity is to be governed (in the soul of your very being) by feelings of generalized benevolence. Because when one is insane every little need is important, but one must still recognize that all other subjective creatures (be it other people or even a cat) have their own needs too. Sometimes your needs will supersede their needs, but one must be able to accept it and oblige when their needs supersede ones own.
The topic of insanity takes me to a seeminly unrelated paralegal consideration: the legality of mind altering substances. Should they be legal?
In the 1960's there was a lot of hype about LSD, so many people tried it- some of whom probably shouldn't have, but some benefited from the experience. Think about the arts from that era- the Beatles, Pink Floyd, some of the modern visual art from that era- it was brilliant.
I submit to you that much of that art was brilliant because it was insane.
The people who benefited from the insanity of LSD however were people who were naturally well-rooted in reality. There is an empirical fact that if someone has the gene for schizophrenia, LSD of a certain dose will cause that mental illness to set in. So it is in fact a very dangerous substance.
As the LSD age of insanity raged on, more and more casualties accumulated and so the populace decided they better just make it totally illegal. But was that a good idea?
It is my position that there need to be regulations governing the use of LSD (age requirements, psychological screenings and individually based maximum doses) but it should not be illegal. Having it be illegal forces some to miss out on possible benefits just because others would not be able to handle the experience. But think about legal drugs, such as alcohol- there are those who can handle it and others who can't. Sure alcohol is not as dangerous as LSD, but a person prone to addiction can ruin their life and their reality through use of alcohol.
So the solution is just to make the requirements to obtain LSD much steeper than those to obtain alcohol. Alcohol merely has an age requirement. LSD should have psychological requirements. Of course this will be expensive and could not possibly be government funded, so individuals who REALLY want the experience would need to find a psychologist to gage the strength of their grasp of reality and prescribe them a conservative maximum dose.
This system, while not perfect, would preserve the rights of some to experience, while protecting others from themselves.