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Guillotine is very effective against headache...
Unless I misunderstood and you were meaning to say that psychedelic experiences can cause you to face your own death and have glimpses of enlightenment, then yes, but the metaphor will be lost on most people.
I've only done mushrooms once, and I've never wanted a cigarette more in my life than during that experience.
IME mushrooms cause any low-consciousness activities like smoking/drinking/mindless partying to seem repulsive.
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What’s wrong with letting people take it in their homes?
overdose, possibly unsanitary conditions, no control over the preparation/application
It would be akin to visiting your pharmacy.
It's hugely psychological. I don't have the shakes or anything, but I'm drowsy, unalert, and feel slow. I can definitely understand how a shroom trip would "reset" my brain to a non-needy state.
Time and Time again, we see how stupid the war on drugs had been for humanity. Look at all the negatives: - Racist origins which disproportionately targeted minorities. It allowed police and prosecutorial discretion to arrest more minorities and give them longer sentences. - Stopped medical progress. Finally a flood of studies are showing us mushrooms, marijuana, MDMA, acid, and more have positive medical uses. - Gav…
Why are they called "magic" mushrooms? Because they remind you that life is, in a sense that we rarely recognize, truly magical. We can adopt the materialist lens and say that they "rewire your brain" -- and in a certain sense, that's of course true. But the crucial point is that experientially, you discover firsthand that life is precious beyond belief -- beyond what the rational mind can contain -- and if cigarette…
It showed me what supreme contentedness and connectedness is after this long time of seeing the world purely in differences - within myself, without myself and in the relationships between me and my environment. Unity.
Understanding what love is. Why people go to parks. How they can enjoy life. Why they bond. The beauty of life and subjectivity.
When you are in a state of happiness, everything in the past and present seems meaningful and positive in some way, because all of it brought you to this state of being. Even if it was terrible. Even if you didn't dare to consider it. In this state, you can contemplate these things because you are overloaded with serotonin.
I advise everyone to use a tripsitter when they experience this, especially for the first time. Respect the drug and it will respect you.
If you don't know anyone and think you are alone, do not be afraid, there are people who will do that for you
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It seems to help with my psychological and spiritual development and make me more conscious, more purpose driven in life, and more aware of the shadow/devil side of my selfish personality.
I've also had a few enlightenment experiences that vastly deepened my understanding of what reality is and why we're here.
If anyone's curious; Elon Musk was right when he said:
"Love is the answer."
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> Criminalization is the problem because it makes on so many levels so hard for the people suffering from addiction to get proper healthcare. Can't you argue that by making it illegal, you make it less available, therefore ending up with less people addicted?
Illegal drugs are available everywhere . They're even available in prisons. If you can't even keep them out of prisons, how effective do you think making them illegal has been on availability?
Currently quitting nicotine, planning to go back to pipe smoking only when I'm "reset". It's hugely psychological. I don't have the shakes or anything, but I'm drowsy, unalert, and feel slow. I can definitely understand how a shroom trip would "reset" my brain to a non-needy state.