A world where drugs are legal or a world where drugs are not necessary?

Shitpost but be honest please.


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[33 Points] f6UmBpI1DQxK:

Interesting thought: Rats kept in a laboratory environment and deprived of regular social interactions and natural setting can easily be taught to self-administer cocaine... and they will then do so to the exclusion of almost all else including mating and feeding.

Rats kept in naturalistic settings are apparently a lot more difficult to train to self-administer cocaine.

All else being equal, when people have a 1) good size network of supportive family and friends and 2) goals and responsibilities in life, they tend to be less likely to turn to super-stimuli for exciting their dopaminic system.


[9 Points] None:

i'd rather live in a world so fulfilling and magical were drugs are not necessary. but instead we are stuck in this shit


[5 Points] None:

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[3 Points] WarningMFrs111:

In a fantasy land that will never be, personal amounts of all drugs would be legal. You get one fuck up... Do something violent or stupid. Then that shits revoked. Only violent piece of crap dealers are arrested but given reasonable sentences.

We probably wouldn't need drugs if this crooked society wasn't against us and people weren't dinner assholes. One can dream!


[4 Points] mydnthrowaway:

Once VR reaches full immersion (like in ready player one, etc) I plan to do my drugs virtually


[2 Points] uEpYN2vYZPCRpH3vjC3r:

Both!

I make a living growing cannabis, though I also have a good job and another decent business. I'm in a US state about to allow larger grows, so this is the best chance I've ever seen in my life to finally make real 'fuck-you money'. Kinda looking forward to that, to be honest.

I was a daily drinker for 25 years, gave it up 5 years ago, super happy to never drink again. I still take in a lot of cannabis daily, and love it love it love it. At this point in my life, anyway....

I think my personal arc of progress and transformation will eventually see me stop using cannabis, the last seriously mind-altering drug I use. To be honest, I'm working toward that day, but don't always look forward to it.


[1 Points] red6onit:

A legal drug that makes drugs unnecessary


[1 Points] None:

Where drugs are legal because I don't believe it's possible for a world without drugs. It's like saying I need everything in my life to be absolutely perfect. It just not realistic. As long as humans are alive there will be human suffering.


[1 Points] None:

The movie "Blade Runner" is based upon a book called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Phillip K Dick. In the book, there is this thing called a mood organ that people have in their house. (this wasn't in the movie)

A mood organ lets you dial in whatever mood you want by number. So like 732 is "irrational optimism" while 387 would be "mild depression" - whatever you want to feel. But it didn't work with drugs, it just controlled the brain directly.

I always thought that such a device would be amazingly destructive, except in cases of things like severe chemical depression. I believe our brains (and psyche) need to feel the full range of human emotions both positive and negative in order to be healthy. If you could just dial it in, most people would probably just stick to "ridiculous euphoria" - basically an MDMA roll 24/7. Even without chemicals I think that would be bad for you.

As far as a "world where drugs are not necessary" - that's just not possible, possible. No matter what, people are going to want to mess with their brains to reach altered states. Evolutionary-wise, we just aren't wired to be content for more than very short periods.


[1 Points] None:

Easy, the latter, no question. I would have a hard time being convinced of the former. Who could argue against a world where happiness/contentment is so universal that no one would want to use drugs? That sounds like heaven to me


[1 Points] tchesket:

Why not both?


[1 Points] Petethefunker:

Yes ☺️


[1 Points] SukkDissDick:

Ummm this has WHAT to do with darkmarkets?

Thanks for ruining the sub even more