I wouldn’t even consider most psychedelics bad and I even consider mushrooms instrumental to my alcoholism recovery over the last few years. (There are caveats, and I’ll explain.)
The issue is some people simply cannot handle psychedelics and bad trips can do more harm than good. If someone is in a risky spot or around shitty people, that can amplify bad experiences 100x. I have had several bad trips, and it’s easy to understand why full-blown psychosis is sometimes a thing.
Heavy dosages with inexperienced users that already have issues is a recipe for disaster. Period. Having seen reality completely dissolve a few times myself, it could be a seriously traumatic experience for some people.
However, when used and dosed properly in healthy environment around people who truly care about your well-being, the benefits outweigh the risks in many cases. A person can quite literally rewire their brain and start to heal from depression, anxiety, PTSD or other types of mental health issues. I ain’t gonna lie: I thought this was absolute bullshit until I started to actively work to sort out my own issues.
The best part is that psychedelics are mostly self-regulating and a tolerance is formed lightning fast. If you are crazy enough to want to trip several days in a row, it can get super inefficient, super quick.
For the first few months of alcohol sobriety, I was going on some universe hopping adventures, having multiple breakthrough experiences and having a grand ol’ time. Then, it just slowed down. I don’t know how to say it accurately, but I found what I was looking for and was able to resolve some deep inner conflict.
I still trip on occasion, but at fractions of my previous dosages. I don’t need those deep experiences any more and I can continue my recovery at the speed of reality.
Psychedelics aren’t inherently dangerous, but they are extremely powerful and demands serious respect. Alcohol is just straight-up dangerous. There are people in my life still that are still killing themselves slowly with the stuff and it sucks to watch.
They are awesome, non-addictive and physiologically safe.
Make sure you’re in a safe, comfortable place, and if you’re doing them with other people, make sure you trust those people, but otherwise have a blast.
Magic mushrooms are the “drug” I really do think everybody should try.
Drug is a word with a lot of double speak/propaganda around it. Like, the war on drugs. The meaning of the word drug in that sentence is to be drugged, as in like alcohol drugs you, heroin drugs you, and if we call mushrooms and LSD drugs we are saying that they do what alcohol and heroin do, which is take you away from yourself.
Drugs can also mean medicine. But that’s not what the Nixon administration meant by the word drug when they passed the controlled substances act.
I took mushrooms, high dose and micro, while on SSRI’s. There’s the smallest, most miniscule chance of seretonin syndrome. But 9999 times out of 10000 you’ll be fine.
I have easy access to them but even so the first time I had mushrooms when I was 12 wasn’t cool and I may have some unexpected trauma from that experience.
Also, people should start with small doses and work their way up.
In fact, there’s a lot of research and care people should do beforehand. Mushrooms can be a wonderful experience, but can also be a traumatic one. Learning about them ahead of time goes a long way.
Pretty important to note that while the no surprises act is a successful piece of legislation alleviating medical poverty, the " surprises" the article is talking about is shitty doctors acting poorly.
"Insurers, however, charged that big physician groups — some of them owned by private equity investors — are trying to manipulate the process to squeeze out higher payments. “A small but significant number of bad actors” have flooded the system with cases “as a way to maximize revenue,” said Kelly Parsons, a spokesperson for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. “Should this trend continue, health care costs are likely to rise unnecessarily.”
The no surprises act is helping people, and greedy assholes are taking advantage of it.
Payor organizations are scum of the earth. It’s no shock that they would act like this. We desperately need at least a public option to drive them to conform with what the public needs or out of business.
Give it another 20 years, then release it with an accompanying series of articles about “wow, check out all the fucked up shit the CIA used to do, aren’t you glad they stopped!”
I’ll vote for a senile old man who wants universal healthcare and won’t help do a genocide any day of the week.
I’ll also vote for a senile old liberal who’s the opposite of both of those things when the alternative is a fuckin Nazi, but that doesn’t mean I’ll be quiet about my displeasure.
A reminder this pier basically did nothing more than generate a headline and political posture so it looks like biden did something for Palestinians. Also a reminder that an attack was launched from their pier where many Palestinians were killed by the israelis.
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