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

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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…

> unambiguously good: tryptamines (e.g., psilocybin) and phenethylamines (e.g., mescaline).

My friends uncle died jumping off a building on acid. Not one of the psychedelics you named, but having done all three I certainly think such a drastic action is possible on mushrooms or mescaline. Whether this means they aren't unambiguously good is up for debate I guess.

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#32

> 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.

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

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

#33

I could have sworn the Zappos CEO died after being murdered by his personal assistant in New York. Who am I thinking of?

I think you're thinking of someone else. The Zappos CEO died in a house fire in New London, CT.

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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…

I have never tried any drugs/alcohol, but I'm curious about Ayahuasca. Don't know anyone personally who has been through the ceremony, but I've listened to a bunch of interviews, read a bunch of articles about it.

It mostly seems legit, but I have no clue. Anyone here tried it? What was the experience like?

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#35

I could have sworn the Zappos CEO died after being murdered by his personal assistant in New York. Who am I thinking of?

Probably Fahim Saleh:

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/police-arrest-assistant-tech...

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

#36

I could have sworn the Zappos CEO died after being murdered by his personal assistant in New York. Who am I thinking of?

Fahim Saleh:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/dismembered-body...

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> NOT prone to abuse Citation needed.

I picked psilocybin for you. "Psilocybin is not considered to be addictive nor does it cause compulsive use" - [0] [0]: https://drugpolicy.org/drug-facts/are-psilocybin-mushrooms-a...

You can still be damaged by a drug even if you are not addicted to it.

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

#39

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…

What happened to Lilly? I was always curious about that.

(Side note while I have you: if your real name isn't SashaShulgin can you please email hn@ycombinator.com with a different username we can rename you to? It's distracting to use a username like that if it's communicating the wrong thing.)

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

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Before he died, there were stories about how he'd tried to single-handedly reinvent downtown Las Vegas (not the Strip). Does anyone know what happened to all that?

More than stories. He put $350m into it and it's still going. https://dtplv.com/
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