• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Leary said: “LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”

    I think this applies just as much to something like the Devil’s lettuce.

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      6 months ago

      I can’t even imagine being a full-grown adult who doesn’t know what it feels like to have consciousness altered by drugs.

      It’s like meeting someone who was born in a car, and they’ve just never ever gotten out of that car.

      Like there’s a door in your wall marked “to alien universe” and you just walked by it for 40 years and never wanted to peek inside? What?

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      5 months ago

      You think weed causes psychotic behavior? I’ve seen lots of reactions from weed… But psychotic is not a word I would use to describe any of them… Someone on a bad hallucinogenic trip that they can’t handle can definitely enter into a psycho episode though (unfortunately I have seen that).

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          5 months ago

          Bah! First thing in the morning eyes! I didnt understand why you were getting upvotes. Ok fair enough. I’m gonna leave my mistake there anyhow. Drugs are great, I’m glad we are all in agreement!