News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new cate... by jokowueu on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:54PM (#36554367)
What a weird thing to gatekeep.

What you have mentioned are called classic psychadelics .

Something being a psychadelic has nothing to do with it's pathways.

Let's take a look at the definition .

Psychedelics are a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary mental states (known as psychedelic experiences or psychedelic "trips") and/or an apparent expansion of consciousness

This fits ketamine perfectly, I have tried many substances and ketamine is one of the most powerful substances I have tried .

Re:Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new cate... by photochemsyn on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:34PM (#36557985)
Prolonged fasting and meditation can generate non-ordinary mental states (which you could call psychedelic trips if you like) but the mechanism and the effects are not the same. When it comes to psychoactive compounds, classification matters a lot, at least from a pharmacological perspective. For example, MDMA dependency is a lot more likely than LSD dependency from an abuse perspective as it hits the dopamine reward circuitry in the brain, and this is generally true of all the tryptamine-class psychedelics.

As far as ketamine, it's an organochlorine compound whose regular use is associated with liver and urinary toxicity, I can't believe anyone who knows about this would want to take it regularly or recreationally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine

Re:Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new cate... by jokowueu on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:48AM (#36558951)
You can't call prolonged fasting or meditation a psychadelic because it doesn't fit the the definition neither having a abuse potential or a compound that causes damage .

The definition exists , if you want to create a new word for it you can go ahead .