Colorado Proposition 122 Election Results: Decriminalize and Regulate Certain Psychedelics
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51% Yes - 49% No

https://naturalmedicinecolorado.org/

As soon as it kicks in, I'm growing pounds of psilocybin to give away. At least five colonies in a constant rotation. :vot

  • 100th [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    This is where you need to actually read about what tryptamines do. Pharmacologically they’re like SSRIs but that also cause neurogenesis. Why are people taking small amounts of SSRIs? To keep from shooting themselves because of psychiatric disorders

    You do know this is feeding into my point right? That life is so miserable, that there is no real help for people. That they have resorted to micro dosing to get through the day.

    Hippies didn't exist in the 40s and 50s when psycadelics where being heavily researched.

    Could they have a positive. Yeah. But right now. They are used solely as a distraction from how horrible life is. So yes. They are a controlling agent for this capitalist system.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Of course hippies existed. Have you ever heard of bohemians? Hippie shit is just a mid-century rehashing of the same orientalism that crackers have been obsessed with for centuries. Mysticism was a 19th century craze well before hippies appropriated it.

      People use any medicinal drug because some symptom makes life miserable and there's no other fix. You're ignoring the word neurogenesis there. It's a neurobiological foundation for that fix which takes them out of the conditioned acceptance of it. The context in which it's being given, a gifting culture in Colorado, is the external social component of that fix. In the psilocybin doses that are used therapeutically, it's not a daily happy drug. As a microdose, it's still not a daily happy drug- it's a once every four days drug.

      You're wholly talking out of your ass.

    • BatCountryMusicFan [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      That life is so miserable, that there is no real help for people. That they have resorted to micro dosing to get through the day.

      So it's nobler to just suffer? "Let's not take medicine because it's capitalism at the root of our sicknesses" is a take I see on here occasionally, and it's never the insight people think it is.

      Also you could apply this to literally any other drug, most of which are worse than shrooms and very legal.

      • 100th [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        This is where the left, imo, gets kinda confusing.

        We are against the system. But also for things that extended it's reign and makes it's misery even longer lasting.

        I don't really know. Im going to go out side and plant some flowers and touch some grass.

        • teddiursa [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Psychedelics make people question the system. Psychedelics make people more creative. Psychedelics have never extended its reign at all in any way whatsoever.