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Had a similar experience, but with the much more tame marijuana. It was a 6-hour long panic attack for me. Similar to the author of this, I read for years of how "the only way it could ever harm you is if you were crushed by 100 lbs of it" on sites like Reddit. It wasn't until after getting high that I heard about marijuana amplifying stress tendencies in a minority of people. I've always been high strung, and maybe…
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Does any of this justify making the substances illegal? > but I worry that we’re underselling the risks Anyone with an ounce of sense knows exactly what bans and prohibition lead to. I don't mean to take away any of the "I had a bad time" stories, my point is prohibiting leads to worse times, mandatory paranoia, decreased likelihood to reach out for help in even medical emergencies, and that's without going into how…
> Anyone with an ounce of sense knows exactly what bans and prohibition lead to. Just a counter example, muslims have been very successfull in prohibiton of all kinds of drugs and alcohol since 15 centuries.