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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by silveraxe93 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:43AM (#36431274)
If they want to escape their lives they'll just become an alcoholic.

I'm not denying that people will self-harm. But the argument that people will self-harm with LSD needs to ignore that there's plenty of better drugs legalised already

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by BasedAnon on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:28AM (#36432683)
Alcohol is much worse than LSD
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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by soligern on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:34AM (#36433759)
In a way. It has much worse physical outcomes over the long term especially if you’re drinking humongous amounts. However, alcohol/nicotine etc. don’t change your modality of thought processes or your underlying perspectives on life. Anecdotally from that perspective LSD is way, way more destructive. It can reconstruct you as a shell of the person you were, and very quickly. I’ve seen it happen so many times and anyone arguing the alcohol is worse than LSD is missing the forest for the tree.
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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by skyyler on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:37PM (#36434797)
>However, alcohol/nicotine etc. don’t change your modality of thought processes or your underlying perspectives on life.

Go to a couple of AA meetings and say that again.

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