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Re:Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses... by miked85 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:19AM (#27205909)
> If you had a friend that refused to drive after drinking any alcohol at all, would you make fun of him?

If he were drinking non-alcoholic beer, yes. This is probably a better comparison to the mask situation going on.

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Re:Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses... by eurasiantiger on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:18AM (#27206251)
Non-alcoholic beer is still a psychoactive drug due to all the psychoactive flavonoids and especially the heterocyclic aromatic amines present in all boiled mash beverages.
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Re:Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:47AM (#27210278)
WTF, gtp-3?
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Re:Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses... by eurasiantiger on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:57PM (#27214369)
Look it up, because it checks out.

”Flavonoids” and ”heterocyclic aromatic amines” are groups of chemicals, which both contain some chemicals that act as MAO-A and MAO-B inhibitors in the human CNS, causing attentional, cognitive, emotional and behavioral changes.

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Re:Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:15PM (#27215233)
https://www.bevindustry.com/articles/92090-flavonoids-provid...

So non-alcoholic beer could modify behavior like a blackberry smoothie?

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Re:Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses... by eurasiantiger on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:24PM (#27215300)
Sure, especially if you make a habit out of it and pair it with a stimulant, like nicotine or caffeine, which both are routinely consumed with large amounts of MAOIs (which are found in both tobacco smoke and brewed coffee).

For an especially interesting evening, search ”monoamine oxidase” in the publicized tobacco industry documents: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/results/#q=%2...

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