I'm not sure how you expect to make me look bad because you got quit early in a field that needed an advanced degree.
"I got a psychology degree you retard I just chose not to get a PHD."
Congrats?
Line between self exploration, and depravity
Hunter Johnson
Kevin Wright
what the fuck is an contractors license.
Austin Howard
Too much of it (or dosing too often) can be neurotoxic, damaging (i think) serotonin receptors. This is not seen at all in users of standard doses with several weeks of distance between uses, but there is a slight neurotoxic effect thats noted but not completely understood.
Addiction in general does it, not just to drugs.
My friend became a gambling addict. He could turn 5 dollars into 2500 in a single night, he did it in front of me 4 different times. Then hed go back the next day with half of that in his pocket and lose it all. Then the next day the other half was gone. He got a girlfriend, a cashier at the casino. Slowly he pawned his possessions to keep playing. Then he stole from his girlfriend. Theyd fight but she'd forgive him. One day we were supposed to hang out with another friend, he wantes to gamble which was fine with us, we went in with 60 bucks max and went for fun and drinks on the house. He didnt, and he needed money too. He'd pawned his valuable possessions so he stole his dads 24 carat gold watch worth $16,000. Didnt have his license so my friend pawned it for him for $1,300 and he lost it all that same day. When his dad couldnt find the watch the addict blamed my friend and almost sent him to jail just so his dad wouldnt find out. I never spoke to him after that, realizing he was too far gone. Ive heard from friends he tried to kill himself at one point but his dad walked in before he necked himself and that now hes dating an older rich woman for her money, gambling with it constantly.
I know your feels. I didnt know the extent of his issues until we began spending more time in his house. When i showed up the day of the watch he already took it. Good thing too, dad had cameras in the house which is why my friend got the blame, video showed both of them going in his room.
Bingo. I dont think weed will be as bad by the time i have kids given the wave of legalization, the sooner its socially seen as smokeable alcohol tier the better. Other drugs i partake in like mdma, shrooms, dmt and lsd though? If the future kids arent at a friends house for a sleepover or at grandmas then theres no fucking way I'm using. Maybe DMT (and only dmt given its 5-15 min trip, can just tell the kid it was a long shower) if I'm in the bathroom and mom stays sober to handle any need the kids may have.
Kevin Myers
Here's what is known so far
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Read the entire fucking paper. Research has flaws. Understand how they came to their conclusions.
Julian Diaz
Beautifully put though you need one more analogy to account for the fun aspect of it. Lsd is amazing but sometimes i just use it for sex with the gf and to watch films (mostly anime films like Paprika or Mind Game). Go for a walk in town and then back to the apartment. While there is obviously a huge potential for improving yourself, its sometimes just for fun.
Psychedelics are literally safer than weed. Theres no brain fuck up, just a panic caused by either denial or the altered state itself.
Coffee is the white mans non degenerate drink, see any european city and its floods of cafes. Starbucks is degenerate, brewing your own and you'll find theres no better way to start the day.
The very paper still says you see deficits and even supports my claim of slight neurotoxicity. Their caveat of maybe impulsives seek it is nice but i highly doubt that you literally have to be fucked with EF in order to seek mdma. Dont know why you grouped me with the rest but interesting paper nonetheless. Thanks for the read
John Morgan
Even heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, PCP, and ketamine can be used productively. The problem is, using those drugs productively requires a profound spiritual strength that is missing from the overwhelming majority of the populace.
Camden Jones
To me it depends on usage. I have used psychedelics years ago and have found them to be positive vaguely spiritual/meditative experiences, not decadent especially compared to something like alcohol, but then again I have a libertine cosmopolitan upbringing and I still have traces of that left after the redpilling. Whenever I have used a psychedelic I felt compelled to not touch them again until at least a year or two later. After the redpilling I don't know if I would touch them ever again given the opportunity, personally.
I have an acquaintance who claims he needs to experience LSD every month or every two weeks to make his anxiety and depression go away and it makes him sound like a fag though, it's a real shame and I consider something like that to be degenerate.
Using influence under any substance as an excuse to do stupid things or absolve yourself from responsibility is the lowest shit tier degenerate behavior.
I hate weed but it's probably because I never got into it because it made me feel like shit.
Now I habitually pop red pills because edgy content gives me a dopamine hit.
Probably is tbh.
I'm willing to agree this is the case for many uses. Psychedelics seem designed to give you many false positive "aha" moments and it's easy to try to chase those in an effort to find something of real meaning.
I can't imagine something more pathetic than actually getting addicted to psychedelics. I'm not sure it's even possible.
Isaac Morris
Drugs are a global jewish weapon against societies. What confuses you?
Luke Ramirez
It always happens with merchants and soldiers. Not to a great degree in a healthy society, but it actually is ok just a little bit. Giving your women to other tribes and societies, though, that's unacceptable.
Owen Roberts
Reading the first two words told me enough:
Ie we cherry-picked other people's research to support our predestined conclusions.
But let's suppose that the conclusions are correct, and long-term use does result in a very slight decrease in executive function. That could be said of many drugs, both legal and illegal; the question is, do the benefits outweigh the harm? As an autist who has found immense benefit to my social function from this drug, the answer for me personally is not in doubt. For a broader view, consider the number of people that have been taking it over the past 30 years or so since it's been widely available. I've yet to see a person that was fucked-up by MDMA use.
Alexander Shulgin used himself as a human guinea pig for every psychedelic imaginable and lived to 89, remaining in good health until the last seven years of his life.
I should have added "with the exception of idiots taking insane overdoses". And it really does take an idiot to overdose, because the appropriate dose is typically around the 100mg mark, a quantity that you can judge by eye. LD50 is several grams for an average human. It's not one of those super powerful microgram-dose drugs like Fentanyl that you can easily accidentally OD on.
There has been an unfortunate trend towards ridiculous high-dose pills of 250mg or so (which no-one should take in one go). If you take several of those at once you're going to be unwell, but if you have any sense you can avoid that just by noticing how physically large the pill is, and using appropriate caution.
The vast majority of deaths and injuries attributed to "ecstasy" are actually caused by adulterants or completely different drugs sold as MDMA. Others are caused by dehydration and heatstroke when people go nuts dancing at rave parties. One famous case in the UK - Leah Betts - actually turned out to be from drinking too much water.
Take away the issues caused by illicit production and distribution, make pharmaceutical quality MDMA available with proper dosing advice, and the very small number of people that currently get harmed will shrink to zero.