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Millions? Citations needed. Assuming this is right in some sense, alcohol has been integrated into functioning civilizations for thousands of years and still ca
by scottlocklin 7y ago
Millions? Citations needed.
Assuming this is right in some sense, alcohol has been integrated into functioning civilizations for thousands of years and still causes this kind of damage, where insane garbage like LSD hasn't, and no civilization worth talking about has managed to integrate a psychedelic drug with it and maintain a high level of civilization. And yes, I've tried it, and I've seen what it does to people: nothing positive.
Sure makes people think they're clever though.
- KptMarchewa 7y agohttps://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alcohol_report/msb_gsr_2014_1.pdf https://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alco... Page 14.
- scottlocklin 7y agoGreat; some NGO, based on (citations needed) claims millions of premature deaths a year from alcohol, a substance which has been used by humans for at least 30,000 years. I look forward to their detailed report on what the projections are for widespread psychedelic use. Of course there won't be any. Because psychedelic use is at least at present a useful form of social control. I know a few people who killed themselves drinking and driving, and have a cousin who drank themselves to death. I know dozens, perhaps hundreds of people who have destroyed themselves psychologically using psychedelics. Dead people are tragic. Zombies are worse.
- sergioj97 7y ago> "Because psychedelic is at least at present a useful form of social control" Why significantly more so than alcohol?