All a reasonable person would ask is that you allow other people to seek mental, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment in the way they see fit, so long as they don't cause real problems for others (lying, cheating, stealing, being a nuisance and causing public disturbances, violence, etc).
I also agree there is a lot of new age spiritualist woo woo nonsense surrounding it that has done damage to the advocacy movement.
That’s fine by me. I’ve read/heard that PTSD can be helped via the usage of some psychedelics. Those who use it and find it to be helpful— more power to them.
PTSD, and also things like depression as well. They can also help recalibrate your mind's reward systems and help break addictive behaviors and tendencies too. They helped me not only quit opiates, but re-evaluate and deprogram myself from the tendencies towards escapism and self-destruction that made me turn to them in the first place. I believe there is immense potential to help many more like me. That is why I advocate so vehemently against prohibition.
During alcohol prohibition of the 1920s the risk premium allowed organized crime to become wealthy and powerful. Modern drug prohibitionists learned this lesson, which is why we’ve seen politicians criticize drugs in public while privately profiting from CIA-run drug importation.
Yes. And if you press pro-prohibition people, their only real solution is to just dramatically escalate draconian punishments, or use appeal to legalism rather than morality as justification.
Sure, if you become a totalitarian police state with mass surveillance everywhere and execute everyone who smokes a single joint, you can probably eradicate weed smokers.
Do you... really want to live in that kind of a police state though?
Also Alzheimer’s. It’s amazing what mushrooms do for people with Alzheimer’s. It gives them an entirely new lease on life. It doesn’t cure the disease, but it takes away the depression and the anxiety and the sadness.
After partaking in both weed and shrooms at reasonable doses, I find shrooms to be much more tolerable at a lower dose. It is a similar feeling but I was far more clear headed after taking the shrooms than something like a marijuana edible
The single biggest rule of pharmacology and drugs in general is that different substances affect different people differently. There is a range of effects they can have, but everyone's body still reacts a little differently.
I am 12 years clean on opiates, almost ruined my life over them because I loved them too much. Psychedelics helped me quit. Never had a taste for hardcore stimulants though. Tried a couple many years ago in my wild phase but I never got hooked because I much preferred to be knocked out by downers rather than strung out on uppers.
I won't force you to do anything.
All a reasonable person would ask is that you allow other people to seek mental, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment in the way they see fit, so long as they don't cause real problems for others (lying, cheating, stealing, being a nuisance and causing public disturbances, violence, etc).
I also agree there is a lot of new age spiritualist woo woo nonsense surrounding it that has done damage to the advocacy movement.
That’s fine by me. I’ve read/heard that PTSD can be helped via the usage of some psychedelics. Those who use it and find it to be helpful— more power to them.
PTSD, and also things like depression as well. They can also help recalibrate your mind's reward systems and help break addictive behaviors and tendencies too. They helped me not only quit opiates, but re-evaluate and deprogram myself from the tendencies towards escapism and self-destruction that made me turn to them in the first place. I believe there is immense potential to help many more like me. That is why I advocate so vehemently against prohibition.
Prohibition doesn’t ever seem to work to keep people away from any type of substance.
During alcohol prohibition of the 1920s the risk premium allowed organized crime to become wealthy and powerful. Modern drug prohibitionists learned this lesson, which is why we’ve seen politicians criticize drugs in public while privately profiting from CIA-run drug importation.
Yes. And if you press pro-prohibition people, their only real solution is to just dramatically escalate draconian punishments, or use appeal to legalism rather than morality as justification.
Sure, if you become a totalitarian police state with mass surveillance everywhere and execute everyone who smokes a single joint, you can probably eradicate weed smokers.
Do you... really want to live in that kind of a police state though?
Also Alzheimer’s. It’s amazing what mushrooms do for people with Alzheimer’s. It gives them an entirely new lease on life. It doesn’t cure the disease, but it takes away the depression and the anxiety and the sadness.
After partaking in both weed and shrooms at reasonable doses, I find shrooms to be much more tolerable at a lower dose. It is a similar feeling but I was far more clear headed after taking the shrooms than something like a marijuana edible
The single biggest rule of pharmacology and drugs in general is that different substances affect different people differently. There is a range of effects they can have, but everyone's body still reacts a little differently.
I am 12 years clean on opiates, almost ruined my life over them because I loved them too much. Psychedelics helped me quit. Never had a taste for hardcore stimulants though. Tried a couple many years ago in my wild phase but I never got hooked because I much preferred to be knocked out by downers rather than strung out on uppers.