Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?

Re:Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics? by deno on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:10AM (#17558492)

Someone prone to alcoholism tries their first gateway alcoholic drink, becomes alcoholic, kills themselves and several other people in a drunk driving manslaughter. This is not hypothetical, it’s a much too common scenario.

You’re praising the de facto drug of violence, comparable in social harm only to heroin, as “socially acceptable”, while grossly misrepresenting the actual harm potential of substances like LSD (“Openness To Experience” is “Russian roulette”, seriously? So is a trip to the Grand Canyon.)

Then you just call anyone you disagree with mentally ill… You know Donald Trump is a teetotaler, right?

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Re:Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics? by 1000units on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @07:24PM (#17562868)

The blog linked above has some good information about how conditional probabilities work as well. I advise checking it out. Really enhances your ability to examine the world and arrive at sound insights if that's something you're interested in. (very much unlike LSD)

To your last comment, maybe this is surprising, but I'm a teetotaler myself.

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Re:Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics? by deno on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @08:44PM (#17563220)

> very much unlike LSD

Have you ever tried LSD yourself?

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Re:Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics? by 1000units on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:02AM (#17564017)

Of course not, are you nuts?

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Re:Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics? by deno on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:27AM (#17564656)

You should.

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