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Honestly, I can understand if people choose not to use harder drugs, thats there choice, and some of them are pretty hardcore.

However, I dont understand how people can scrutinize softer drugs like marijuana, LSD, and Psilocybin. If you really believe it is so pointless and harmful to the mind over time. Why not just spend a measly half day and put your money where your mouth is. Everyone is just so scared to experience life. I mean, Nancy Reagen spent a very large portion of her life spreading what she believed to be the absolute truth about drugs, yet she couldn't spend 1 day experiencing it from the other side?

I used to want to be an addiction specialist. The reason I don't anymore is because I believe the only people who can really guide addicts are those who have been addicts themselves. I've never been a heroin addict, how the hell am I supposed to talk to one like I know what they've been through?

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Yeah. That's one thing that gets me, is all the people who go through life looking through one side of the glass wall. You step through, and you lose that "innocence," and you can't go back. But ultimately, I have to say, we are all the better for this form of self-affirmation. To be perfectly honest, if I had to and could choose, I would rather LSD and/or psilocin be legal than marijuana. I consider marijuana more for relaxation than anything. LSD and psilocybin are experiences all in themselves, which can completely alter how one puts things into perspective. These seem like more necessary experiences to extensive self-analysis than smoking a spliff. Although all legal at the same time would be unrealistically awesome.

And yeah, that's a good way to look at the addiction thing. Some of the problem with the industry today is that people who have no idea are running it, and saying "Okay, we give them pills that are like heroin, and gradually wean them off of it." After that it's a kick in the ass out the door and a "Best of luck." By the chance it is a rehab center or someone who can afford/is sent to therapy, the therapist is not likely to have a lot, if any experience with the drug. If the directors of the rehab follow some standardized curriculum, they may not perceive the need to hire someone with personal experience with the drug, and may even actually hire discriminatorily against past abusers.

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However, the vast majority of people I talk to that have experience with psychedelics tell me that although they are fun, the most important part of the experience is the insight.

I was actually talking to my mom about this last night (I have a very open relationship). I was telling her what psilocybin and LSD did for me. How psilocybin really shows me what I'm doing right and wrong with my life, how I had a truly pure realization about how much I love her and my family, a realization that had me in tears, a moment that I will always remember. I also mentioned how LSD affected my way of thinking, how universal it is. How it really eliminates the mask of society...the norms and expectaion.

What psychedelics really do is make you human for a short period of time. Its like being an evangelical and believing that all homosexuals are going to hell, you believe this because your whole life has been surrounded by this belief. You were brought to church as a kid, your parents told you this, everyone told you this. Taking a psychedelic removes all the brain wash, all the outside influence, and it tells you "What do you believe?"... "NO, not what do THEY believe, what do YOU believe". It tells you how you've been conditioned all your life, and it eliminates that blanket and exposes your life for what it really is.

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"We are not human beings having a
spiritual experience, but spiritual beings
having a human experience."