• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    My mom once told me that, in her youth, you could ask whether smoking weed was okay in an environment by saying “is it cooool?” stretching out the word and making a sort of fish swimming motion with your hand.

    I don’t know whether that’s true, nor - if so - how widespread it was. Probably it’s not still accurate in any case.

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    This happened to a friend of mine. He gave a ride to this girl that was a friend of a friend and she asked him if she could smoke in his car. He said OK and she pulls out a meth pipe.

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    This happened to me.

    We were sharing a joint after a pagan ritual and he whipped out a real pipe.

    He looked at me and started to ask “do you want? Nah, not you”

    And I appreciated it because I’m not sure I could handle something harder than nicotine or caffeine.

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          It’s not good for trauma. The reason is because it is extremely short acting (within about 10-15 minutes depending, you are back at baseline) so there is little to no time to do the work and to do the integration of the experience. Psilocybin remains the gold standard for psychedelic assisted therapy and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Also, a lot of people freak out on DMT because it hits so quickly and so incredibly hard. Lastly, it almost always leaves people with some varying level of amnesia about the experience, so even if you did manage to have a breakthrough or work things out, you would almost certainly forget as soon as you were sober again.

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                  I had a similar setup as I used several times for shrooms before. However, that didn’t prepare me for Changa (smoked DMT). There was no wiggle room. It hit me, I heard weird sounds and then time stopped. I saw myself from above and was disgusted by what I saw and super sad. Also scared because time just didn’t want to continue. So I was there, frozen in misery for an unknown amount of time when finally the trees outside the window started morphing weirdly and then time came back and I got control over my body back. I had a disgusting taste in my mouth and just felt like a piece of shit for a while and had several panic attacks the following weeks.

                  Under the influence of shrooms I could move and change the setting, the music, my attention etc to navigate my way out bad experiences but that didn’t work for Changa.

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    Crack isn’t that bad. Don’t knock it until you try it. It’s just a stimulant. Bunch of babies.

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      I smoke crack 70,80 times a day and I’m fine. Have done for 50 years. It embiggens your blood and is very easy on the wallet.

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      And heroin’s just an opiate! And PCP and Ketamine are just anaesthetics!

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        Ketamine is genuinely pretty harmless though. Not without risks of course but still not really anywhere near the others. More on par with weed, shrooms and such.

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          Yes, I agree. And I said as much in a comment below. It was all me being sarcastic, and forgetting that sarcasm doesn’t really translate through the internet, lol. It was all jokes.

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        Heroin itself isn’t that unsafe, the problem was that anyone who could guarantee a consistent dose was locked up, and now you probably can’t even get clean H cuz fent is so much more concentrated and therefore easier to smuggle. Anyone who dies of an opiate overdose is someone killed by the state’s endless war on humanity.

        Ketamine is one of the safest medications we know of when used properly.

        Get your head out of Nixon’s drug war propaganda.

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          It was all jokes. I am certainly not a victim of that sort of propaganda.

          I abused the living shit out of ketamine and a ton of it’s analogues for over a decade. For about 6 years there during the worst of it, if I was conscious, I was at some varying level of highness off of ketamine and/or any number of ketamine analogues literally 24/7/365 for years and years on end. I know that it is physically extremely safe, with the exception of the urinary tract effects.

          I’ve never abused opiates myself (don’t like the feeling), but I have a ton of friends who did and/or still do. You’re right though, there is no real, even remotely pure heroin around where I live, and there hasn’t been for the better part of a decade. It’s all fent and fent analogues and nitazenes. Or so my friends tell me, that is.

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          when billionaires and all their money can’t control their addiction sure buddy

          like no one should go to jail just for use and obviously not everyone goes full addict after one hit but I know enough that started with thinking just one time

          why risk it?, just smoke your cigs and weed