finale Posted:

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You’re a straight-edge dude, i can respect that. A couple problems I have:

1. The example with rats is very interesting, but I think largely irrelevant in this thread. Perhaps this would be the case with an opiate or arguably amphetamines, which are more ‘chemical pleasure’, but this thread is pretty much exclusively about psychedelic drugs, which are hardly that. It’s not simply a magic bumon or pill that makes you feel good, it’s a much more abstract state that people enjoy for the altered perspective. True, there is euphoria involved, but that’s just one facet of the larger experience.

b) Again, people doing smileprin are not doing anything else, but again that would only be a good analogy to someone shooting up and nodding out. People on a psychedelic trip don’t do nothing, they socialize with friends, go outside, watch a movie, read a book, listen to music. I would also argue that a rational person can properly balance his life to include occasional drug use, but also everything else that a non-user would do in life.

2. You suggested reading a book earlier. During the several hours you read a book/watch a movie or whatever, you don’t have to make any rational decisions, you’re just reading. I’ll agree that if you do drugs before you’re going to have to be making important decisions is a dumb thing to do, that’s why you set aside several hours of free time to do something. As for health risks, all i can really answer to that is that different people have a different tolerance to risk. It’s a matter of cost-benefit, and i personally believe that the personal benefits and experiences of certain drugs are well worth the risk involved (this of course depends on the substance, for example DXM is far more harmful than mushrooms, which are practically harmless if taken responsibly.)

Also note that i think that ideally, a person should do mushrooms/acid very infrequently, like, at most once a year. Frequent use is just masturbatory and really amounts to just pushing that bumon again and again. I would also mention that if you have never listened to music while tripping, your life is not as complete as someone who has.

p.s. you can make food out of weed. Poof, no more carcinogenic!