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Ending the Drug War Would Unleash the Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelics

openfuture 8y ago
This guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Baba https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Baba Always said that you shouldn't use psychadelics (including marijuana) until age 50 but if you'd already nade the mistake if starting early then you should at least do it properly. He for example refused to smoke with people that slouched or had shallow breathing. I think it'd be clever to allow psychadelics (recreationally) for people aged 50+ to start with. Slowly it'd become a better understood thing and the age limit could go down.
- __blockcipher__ 8y ago
  fuck that. the radical personality changes that can arise with psychedelics make them a great tool for younger people. anecdotally, I took shrooms my freshman year of college and had my life goals, desires, etc completely inverted (in a good way, from my perspective). psychedelics are great for older people too, but I see no benefit in introducing an arbitrary age limit. Not to mention the fact that young people would still do them anyway...
vu47 8y ago
The value that designer arylcyclohexylamines (3-MeO-PCP, 4-HO-PCP, 3-MeO-PCE, 4-HO-PCE, O-PCE, deschloroketamine, and 2F-deschloroketamine) have added to my life is immeasurable in terms of challenging my preconceptions on reality, the reliability of my senses, and the possibilities of my mind. Tryptamines, phenethylamines, and lysergamides, on the other hand, do very little for me, even at extremely high doses.
eip 8y ago
I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control. --Ken Kesey

This guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Baba https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Baba Always said that you shouldn't use psychadelics (including marijuana) until age 50 but if you'd already nade the mistake if starting early then you should at least do it properly. He for example refused to smoke with people that slouched or had shallow breathing. I think it'd be clever to allow psychadelics (recreationally) for people aged 50+ to start with. Slowly it'd become a better understood thing and the age limit could go down.

__blockcipher__ 8y ago
fuck that. the radical personality changes that can arise with psychedelics make them a great tool for younger people. anecdotally, I took shrooms my freshman year of college and had my life goals, desires, etc completely inverted (in a good way, from my perspective). psychedelics are great for older people too, but I see no benefit in introducing an arbitrary age limit. Not to mention the fact that young people would still do them anyway...

vu47 8y ago

The value that designer arylcyclohexylamines (3-MeO-PCP, 4-HO-PCP, 3-MeO-PCE, 4-HO-PCE, O-PCE, deschloroketamine, and 2F-deschloroketamine) have added to my life is immeasurable in terms of challenging my preconceptions on reality, the reliability of my senses, and the possibilities of my mind. Tryptamines, phenethylamines, and lysergamides, on the other hand, do very little for me, even at extremely high doses.

eip 8y ago

I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control. --Ken Kesey