It’s fun.
-“old” guy
Your comment made me wonder about generational differences when it comes to drugs of choice, since psychedelics seemingly fell out of favor there for a bit while cocaine took over. I wonder how each generation’s drug use affects their consciousness and such. Some random data:
LSD is $5 for 1, $10 for two and 3 for free!
You’re taking the three all at once right now.
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I wonder what drugs they included in each category? I know there was a lot of ecstasy back in the 90’s .
You know that theory that hallucinogens helped us move up from apes? Maybe humanity is ready for it’s next move up?
But seriously, “because they’re fun” and “reality isn’t promising or hopeful” are probably the big ones here.
combine that with the fact that no one trusts the government to tell them what drugs are dangerous anymore. maybe you never did, but many many people used to not do various drugs because they trusted that they were illegal for a reason. the current state of marijuana being federally illegal and clearly not hurting people that bad has made that much much harder to believe.
Fun fact, the mountain where Moses did the Ten Commandments thing? It had a native hallucinogenic plant growing in it.
It’s true, there are two plants native to the area that produce the psychoactive compounds also found in Ayahuasca. Peganum harmala aka harmel or wild rue, and Acacia confusa aka ayangile or formosan koa
The former is a short, bushy flowering herb, and the latter is a variety of tree that Noah might have used to build the ark.
Or maybe reality isn’t promising or hopeful due to people taking hallucinogens instead of tinkering or creating or rioting.
Mine sucked less than usual yesterday, but it was a mistake to walk that much with cold, so today it sucks more than usual.
Because they always have?
Because hallucinogens are increasingly understood to have potential therapeutic benefits?
Because hallucinogens fucking rock?
Because no seriously they have for as long as we can find any evidence whether or not they have wherever they’ve been available. Like think shroom tripping in a ziggurat level always have. Tripping hunter gatherers. They always have.
gestures broadly at the real world
Because they are fucking awesome, I bet.
Shrooms are astoundingly awesome. It cured my depression and I have been much happier since. I ate 11.7 grams of high power dried shrooms and had the craziest experience of my life a few months ago. Got stuck in a time loop, lived many lives, became other people, was a duck spirit. It was a journey unlike anything imaginable without them. We knew we were in for a hell of a ride when the buzz was strong less than 5 minutes after eating them. The buzz doubled in intensity every 5 minutes and 20 minutes in I fell through a checkered white tunnel with floating honey falling above me. Landed on a dark circular lawn looking up at the divine tower of music as me and my fellow duck spirit friends stood in a circle worshiping the music. It got so much crazier after that. I did piss myself but read after, that is par for the course at such extreme doses