The slippery slope argument isn't a fallacy if there's really a slippery slope.
The slippery slope argument isn't a fallacy if there's really a slippery slope.
Denver has a very large homeless population living in parks and camps, many of them high on weed. Don't know how this will progress if they begin tripping. Two issues coming to a meeting point.
So it's pot > 'shrooms > OxyContin > heroin/fentanyl? I don't see any compelling logic here to support this progression. Psychedelics to shooting up opioids does not necessarily follow.
So it's pot > 'shrooms > OxyContin > heroin/fentanyl? I don't see any compelling logic here to support this progression. Psychedelics to shooting up opioids does not necessarily follow.
Oxycontin is already legal and has lead to a massive number of heroin addictions.
I'm just making the point that when it came to pot legalization, people made the slippery slope argument. Ultimate conclusions aside, they were right. We're now moving on to other drugs.
Denver has a very large homeless population living in parks and camps, many of them high on weed. Don't know how this will progress if they begin tripping. Two issues coming to a meeting point.
Some of the most profound, life changing and beneficial experiences I have ever had in my life were on shrooms.
Sounds terrible. The best moments of your life came only when you pharmacologically altered your brain? How do you deal with real life?
You'll have less people doing shrooms on a regular basis than weed. While not recommended, you can use weed every day all day. You won't get much done, but there are plenty of "wake and bake" people out there.
Drugs like shrooms and LSD, however, aren't very conducive to regular use. They tend to be self limiting. First, tolerance builds really quickly, forcing one to take breaks in order for them to remain effective. And unlike alcohol and weed, psychedelics aren't drugs one takes to escape the stress of their lives as psychedelics are mood enhancers. My guess is a shroom trip, of any sizeable dose, would be a nightmare for most homeless people or people going through hard times. I enjoy shrooms, but I ONLY eat them when absolutely everything in my life is going well. If I am stressed over anything the shrooms will take that stressor and turn it into my own personal hell for the duration of the trip. It won't kill ya, but it might make you WISH you were dead. That is lesson one learns really quickly.
That said, first time users who don't know what they are getting into might get in over their head out of ignorance. Somebody on a bad shroom trip won't likely hurt themselves or others intentionally, but if you have a bad trip in public it could result in an accident. "Look at the pretty lights, I want to hug them. Oops, that was an oncoming bus." However, if it were legalized then the places that sold it could educate people on the proper amounts to take.
Some of the most profound, life changing and beneficial experiences I have ever had in my life were on shrooms. And the most hellish, torturous, scary experience of my life was on shrooms. They aren't physically harmful, but they can put your psyche through the ringer.
Oxycontin is already legal and has lead to a massive number of heroin addictions.
I'm just making the point that when it came to pot legalization, people made the slippery slope argument. Ultimate conclusions aside, they were right. We're now moving on to other drugs.
I'm still in the "pot" stage (have been for over 30 years). I feel like a boy scout who will never be anything but a tenderfoot
No, you are trying to say because pot is legal that more people are going to use other drugs. Sorry there is no connection to that. Oxy was legal long before weed was and there is an oxy problem. That has nothing to do with weed.
It sure seems like legalization leads to increased use.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/denver-psychedelic-mushrooms_us_5c54c01fe4b09293b2041e3d
The city could become the first to ease up on psilocybin mushroom use.
Denver voters are about to go on the trip of a lifetime.
In May, they’ll get a chance to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms within the city with a vote, according to the Denver Channel. And they apparently really want the vote: The Denver Elections Division certified a petition Friday from activists that got more than 5,500 signatures.
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This could be a first in this country or in this hemisphere for that matter.
In my youth I experienced several different hallucinogenic substances, dried Psilocybe mushrooms being one of them. The psychoactive ingredients are psilocin & psilocybin. These mushrooms were originally found in Mexico.
The interesting thing about the psilocybin/psilocin 'high' is that you see visual patterns that are geometric & similar to the motifs found in Aztec building, art & designs. It makes you wonder which came first, the mushrooms or the Aztec culture.
Sounds terrible. The best moments of your life came only when you pharmacologically altered your brain? How do you deal with real life?
Thanks for the information. I have never been the least tempted by psychedelics, so have no idea what the experience is like.
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