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I think this is going to lead to a lot of unforeseen problems. Brick structures will be much more vulnerable once literally anyone can take one of these and bec

by jpfed 9y ago

I think this is going to lead to a lot of unforeseen problems. Brick structures will be much more vulnerable once literally anyone can take one of these and become twice as large. And once you've had a mushroom, if you get the right kind of flower in your system you'd be an unstoppable fire-throwing menace. Then it doesn't matter what kind of gun control is on the books. I just don't know what they're thinking.

clay_the_ripper 9y ago
You got me
oneshot908 9y ago
Well how many times must this be explained? One pill makes you larger, one pill makes you small, and the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all...
- whyenot 9y ago
  I'd be on the lookout for a hookah-smoking caterpillar
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webkike 9y ago
And don't get me started on poison mushrooms!
wallace_f 9y ago
>It is distinctly possible that California voters could be the first in the nation to decide Your thinking might be more worldly than you realize. This--Nintendo--was banned in China until 2015. Now take the cultural stigma of psychedelic use and place it on Nintendo. Is it now any less ridiculous that mushrooms are banned here? 'Tyranny over the individual' was never have a legitimate role of government in the first place. While we're gaining some rights back (LGBT, prohibition), and losing others (privacy, free speech), maybe it's useful to connect these issues.
- pmoriarty 9y ago
  "While We're gaining some rights back (LGBT, prohibition), but losing others (privacy, free speech)." I am hopeful that if the decriminalization and legalization of psychedelics continues, and if they ever become anywhere near as popular as they were in the 60's, they will usher in a renaissance of artistic creativity and positive social and political transformation. It likely won't be a replay of the 60's, but it could still be very positive, as more people begin to see through the bullshit of the current social and political systems, and start to create positive alternatives. That said, there could be and probably will be some backlashes and regressions as the media start to swarm like flies over sensational drug-related stories and phenomena, much like they did around psychedelic demagogues like Leary, Kesey and Manson (I hate to use Manson in the same sentence as the rest, but they all had a role in fomenting the anti-drug hysteria of the 60's and 70's). We've been lucky so far that no such demagogues or scandals have emerged in recent years, but as drugs become more popular and socially accepted, I have no doubt that some psychedelic drug-related scandal or expose is going to outrage the public and there will be calls to make these drugs illegal once again. Legalization advocates have tried to play it safe by pushing the medicinal benefits of these substances, and by running carefully conducted research studies, but once these drugs become more popular, you know that most people aren't going to be using them wisely or carefully, and some will be using them irresponsibly or even destructively.
  - wallace_f 9y ago
    >as more people being to see through the bullshit of the current social and political systems. Do you think people are closer to being self-centered, profit-driven "rational agents" today than in the 60s?
  - sandworm101 9y ago
    >> a renaissance of artistic creativity and positive social and political transformation. For all the art that occurred, there were some huge downsides. Getting high and communing with nature is all well and good, until a certain percentage start climbing the trees. We remember the pop songs can came from those times. We forget the broken bones and twisted ankles.
Alex3917 9y ago
I get that this is a joke, but the mushrooms that distort your sense of size are Amanita Muscaria, which are already legal in every state except Louisiana.
- mediocrejoker 9y ago
  I was not aware that any species of hallucinogenic mushrooms can selectively distort your sense of size (ie. apart from the general distortion of all senses and perceptions with any hallucinogenic drug)
  - jerkstate 9y ago
    eating any kind of mushroom makes you larger, but only very slightly
    - chiaro 9y ago
      Idk, there's a few with pretty strong laxative effects.
  - Alex3917 9y ago
    Yeah, you occasionally hear stories about people hurting themselves by trying to pole vault over a quarter or something because they thought it was the size of a fence. Or people being 'too small' to walk up the stairs.
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kgunnar 9y ago
"Brick structures will be much more vulnerable once literally anyone can take one of these and become twice as large. And once you've had a mushroom, if you get the right kind of flower in your system you'd be an unstoppable fire-throwing menace." I think you might be conflating the Super Mario series with your assessment of psychedelics...
msla 9y ago
And people might slip these mushrooms into strangers' food out of some misguided belief that "mind expansion" is a positive good, and that anyone who isn't taking hallucinogens is just closed-minded. Or slipping it into friends' food as a prank, because some people are assholes like that.

by jpfed 9y ago

clay_the_ripper 9y ago

You got me

oneshot908 9y ago

Well how many times must this be explained? One pill makes you larger, one pill makes you small, and the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all...

whyenot 9y ago
I'd be on the lookout for a hookah-smoking caterpillar
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webkike 9y ago

And don't get me started on poison mushrooms!

wallace_f 9y ago

>It is distinctly possible that California voters could be the first in the nation to decide Your thinking might be more worldly than you realize. This--Nintendo--was banned in China until 2015. Now take the cultural stigma of psychedelic use and place it on Nintendo. Is it now any less ridiculous that mushrooms are banned here? 'Tyranny over the individual' was never have a legitimate role of government in the first place. While we're gaining some rights back (LGBT, prohibition), and losing others (privacy, free speech), maybe it's useful to connect these issues.

pmoriarty 9y ago
"While We're gaining some rights back (LGBT, prohibition), but losing others (privacy, free speech)." I am hopeful that if the decriminalization and legalization of psychedelics continues, and if they ever become anywhere near as popular as they were in the 60's, they will usher in a renaissance of artistic creativity and positive social and political transformation. It likely won't be a replay of the 60's, but it could still be very positive, as more people begin to see through the bullshit of the current social and political systems, and start to create positive alternatives. That said, there could be and probably will be some backlashes and regressions as the media start to swarm like flies over sensational drug-related stories and phenomena, much like they did around psychedelic demagogues like Leary, Kesey and Manson (I hate to use Manson in the same sentence as the rest, but they all had a role in fomenting the anti-drug hysteria of the 60's and 70's). We've been lucky so far that no such demagogues or scandals have emerged in recent years, but as drugs become more popular and socially accepted, I have no doubt that some psychedelic drug-related scandal or expose is going to outrage the public and there will be calls to make these drugs illegal once again. Legalization advocates have tried to play it safe by pushing the medicinal benefits of these substances, and by running carefully conducted research studies, but once these drugs become more popular, you know that most people aren't going to be using them wisely or carefully, and some will be using them irresponsibly or even destructively.
- wallace_f 9y ago
  >as more people being to see through the bullshit of the current social and political systems. Do you think people are closer to being self-centered, profit-driven "rational agents" today than in the 60s?
- sandworm101 9y ago
  >> a renaissance of artistic creativity and positive social and political transformation. For all the art that occurred, there were some huge downsides. Getting high and communing with nature is all well and good, until a certain percentage start climbing the trees. We remember the pop songs can came from those times. We forget the broken bones and twisted ankles.

Alex3917 9y ago

I get that this is a joke, but the mushrooms that distort your sense of size are Amanita Muscaria, which are already legal in every state except Louisiana.

mediocrejoker 9y ago
I was not aware that any species of hallucinogenic mushrooms can selectively distort your sense of size (ie. apart from the general distortion of all senses and perceptions with any hallucinogenic drug)
- jerkstate 9y ago
  eating any kind of mushroom makes you larger, but only very slightly
  - chiaro 9y ago
    Idk, there's a few with pretty strong laxative effects.
- Alex3917 9y ago
  Yeah, you occasionally hear stories about people hurting themselves by trying to pole vault over a quarter or something because they thought it was the size of a fence. Or people being 'too small' to walk up the stairs.
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kgunnar 9y ago

"Brick structures will be much more vulnerable once literally anyone can take one of these and become twice as large. And once you've had a mushroom, if you get the right kind of flower in your system you'd be an unstoppable fire-throwing menace." I think you might be conflating the Super Mario series with your assessment of psychedelics...

msla 9y ago

And people might slip these mushrooms into strangers' food out of some misguided belief that "mind expansion" is a positive good, and that anyone who isn't taking hallucinogens is just closed-minded. Or slipping it into friends' food as a prank, because some people are assholes like that.