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Zappos CEO’s final months describe drug-addicted psychosis in court documents

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> Our European visitors are important to us. > This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws. I wonder if sites will ever stop lying about this.

I wonder if Europe will ever lift its Iron GDPR Curtain to allow its residents to access free-world websites!

Note that this curtain isn't put in place by the EU, nor that compliance with the GDPR is hard.

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Nitrous oxide abuse is really dangerous > Hi Everyone, > I have quite probably taken more Nitrous (at least in Whippit form) than anyone else alive. So I feel compelled to share with all of you - my experience. Read more: https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/nitrous-oxide-experienc...

Glad you're still here to share your (mis)adventures, the streets here are littered with those little silver 'bullets', I thought we had a problem, now I'm just wondering where you live...

Not the OP; the original poster lives on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Re: Zappos CEO’s final months describe drug-addicted psychosis in court documents

#83
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"5 years spent as a rich junkie must be worth a lifetime as a 9-5 cubicle worker." This claim demands great evidence.

In theory if you value variety of experiences than 5 years as junkie may be better outcome than the a desk job. Most people don't value variety all that much which is why 9-5 workers are lot more common than perpetual travellers etc.

Not saying that your "may" is invalid but in practice I don't think most junkies vary their experience all that much. Getting high/stoned/intoxicated/etc every day does not variety make.

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Dissociatives (e.g., ketamine, nitrous oxide, xenon, phencyclidine, dextromethorphan in cough syrup) are too addictive, too pleasurable, and reliably produce long-lasting delusional states (e.g., as observed in John C. Lilly and Marcia Moore and Tony Hsieh). It is disturbing to read Marcia Moore's "Journeys Into the Bright World" ( http://pdf.textfiles.com/books/journeysbrightworld.pdf ) where she recounts that John…

>On the other hand, there are other classes of psychedelics that are unambiguously good: tryptamines (e.g., psilocybin) and phenethylamines (e.g., mescaline). I don't know that I would necessarily classify hallucinogenic psychedelics as unambiguously good. I suspect the potential negative effects are understudied and under reported. Beyond hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (admittedly rare), medium-long ter…

Would you please elaborate on emotions which are more apparent then before? In email s@samat.me if not in public.

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> No-fault means what?

I believe they are referring to half of all assets going to your spouse without a prenuptial agreement even if there was a good reason for divorce.

That's not the same as no-fault divorce though. That's typically a Community Property provision.

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I know people who got fucked up for years due to a single shroom or LSD trip. Some of them got sorted out eventually, others didn’t.

Anecdotally, After my one and only use of Psilocybin where I cried for about 5 hours straight, I did not feel the desire to do it again.

For me it was all fun, until i got a paranoia that this mental state will never end. Well it ended - but this couple of hours have been the worst.

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Dissociatives (e.g., ketamine, nitrous oxide, xenon, phencyclidine, dextromethorphan in cough syrup) are too addictive, too pleasurable, and reliably produce long-lasting delusional states (e.g., as observed in John C. Lilly and Marcia Moore and Tony Hsieh). It is disturbing to read Marcia Moore's "Journeys Into the Bright World" ( http://pdf.textfiles.com/books/journeysbrightworld.pdf ) where she recounts that John…

I think your generalizations are very wrong. Ketamine may be bad when abused, but when used correctly for depression, it can be extremely effective and good. It changed my life greatly, for the better. And I wouldn’t say that psilocybin is unequivocally good either. The worst trip I ever had was on mushrooms. It was extremely traumatic in a way that had lasting effects. It changed my life greatly, for the worse.

So, I'll agree with that but with a caveat, because I have a loved one who was part of a licensed esketamine (s-ketamine) trial. It certainly can pretty much just "turn off" some depression and I've seen it do that (even somehow avoiding problems from accidentally forgetting to take the other meds soon after).

But it can also cause powerful and disturbing psychosis. In our case, I woke up at knife point to someone driven to tears by a psychosis telling them to kill me. I managed to de-escalate that without any harm done, but suffice it to say, caution is strongly advised with such things.

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This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents. I know some people who know people who made a lot of money in the 2000s dot com boom. One of them got a "guru" who he paid several thousands of dollars a day to. The "guru" fed him Ayahuasca and people who visited the rich guy at his house said he had removed all furniture…

> They often say that there's no one more hopeless than a rich junky. If they have a very large amount of money, they never hit rock bottom until they're dead. She’s fortunately still alive, but when I divorced my ex-wife over her substance abuse, she walked away with ~$1M in cash. It took three years of partying, but she finally ran out of money, hit rock bottom, went to AA, and is actually looking for a job. It was…

"No-fault divorce is a broken system."

Or was it a community property state?

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“Important to us, but not profitable to serve.”

No, even profitable, it's just that they can't be bothered to disable their tracking.

If it was profitable enough to bother, I’m sure they’d do it.

Re: Zappos CEO’s final months describe drug-addicted psychosis in court documents

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if you want a thrill, without doing drugs please engage in these hobbies: motorcycles, planes, freediving / cliffdiving and well ultra triathlons etc. rich people like larry ellison take up sailing and buy used fighter jets. the important thing is to realize you need a thrill in your life, something dangerous that makes you kiss death every once in a while, while not dying or frying your brain!!!
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