Why Scientists Need to Get High

Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by seabird on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:34PM (#36155372)

Things can just go bad, no matter how hard you try. There is always some level of risk involved, especially if you have a family or personal history of mental illness, in which case it's advisable to not fuck with it at all. "Set and setting" doesn't paper over everything.

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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by aaomidi on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:36PM (#36155410)

Isn’t this generally the case for everything?

Things can go bad in any experience.

You can go zip lining and things can go bad. You can go through any experience and can be left with various degrees of physical and mental damage.

Does that mean we shouldn’t do anything?

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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by BasedAnon on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:59PM (#36155759)

Risks are not created equal.

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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by aaomidi on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:18PM (#36156014)

Never implied they are but neither are the rewards.

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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by seabird on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:28PM (#36156923)

The risk of psychedelic drugs is more comparable to motorsports, the more involved action sports, heavy equipment operation, etc. and your average person would be very wary of participating in these even though there are plenty of risk mitigations for these activities.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do drugs. I'm saying that many of them require way more respect than most people realize they need to give them, and trying to downplay that is not good. I can tell you from personal experience that it's easy to get yourself and people you care about in dangerous places.

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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by chrisldgk on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:16PM (#36157450)

Speak for yourself, I’d hop into (and probably crash) a formula 1 car no questions asked

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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by seabird on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:33PM (#36157665)

I would to, but most people get nervous revving their car past 4k.

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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by hellotomyrars on Thursday June 01, 2023 @06:30PM (#36158308)

To be fair it’s not a good comparison. An F1 car is , all things considered, an incredibly safe place to be in.

Certainly safer than your average road car in most circumstances.

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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by aaomidi on Thursday June 01, 2023 @08:00PM (#36159141)

Then maybe we should focus on the education around this instead of prohibition.

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Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High by NoImmatureAdHom on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:44PM (#36160231)

> The risk of psychedelic drugs is more comparable to motorsports, the more involved action sports, heavy equipment operation, etc.

Yeah...I'm going to need to see some numbers to believe that.

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