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Re:The Curious Life and Mind-Altering Death of Justin Clark by netizen-936824 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:16AM (#30455628)
I personally think it's poor to classify something on an attribute that it only expresses a fraction of the time. Classifications should be made on primary attributes that are expressed the majority of the time, that helps with communicating about what's being classified.

Calling something a hallucinogen, while true a portion of the time, gives people who are unfamiliar the impression that it produces hallucinations most of the time, which it does not.

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Re:The Curious Life and Mind-Altering Death of Justin Clark by lewispollard on Thursday February 24, 2022 @12:51PM (#30457855)
I've never tried pcp or its analogues, but ketamine was a potent hallucinagen for me - at a high enough dose.

I would generally agree that calling it (or an analogue of it with a similar profile) a (bespoke) hallucinagen in an article isn't very accurate though. I was fascinated by the hallucinations that ketamine induced in me, and sought them out, but they were actually quite unreliable to attain and seemed to require a very specific dose range and set/setting.

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