I don't really care about the legality of "hardcore" chemical drugs (the likes of heroin, meth, amphetamines, synthetic/semi-synthetic opiates, benzodiazepenes...etc). What I care about is the stark idiocy of making naturally available things illegal. The consumption of things like mushrooms, cactus (peyote/San Pedro), root bark (mimosa, banisteriopsis) , marijuana should logically be up to each and every human. You can warn and inform, but it's ridiculous and silly to make nature illegal. This even extends to substances such as LSD, which has shown time and time again its benefit to human beings.
"I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control" - Ken Kesey
As a chemist, it drives me mad whenever I read/hear : natural = good, chemical = bad. Natural products can be absolutely harmless or deadly poisonous, just like artificially produced molecules...
Also, I laugh (respectfully) at "Should drugs be researched for their medical effects ?". Do you really believe they aren't already ?
You misunderstood. This topic is asking about drugs. There are two classes of drugs, synthetic and natural. I said all the synthetic ones, I do not really care about. THen I advocated the natural ones, never saying "they should be legal because natural is better than chemical". I said natural should be legal because..well, it's natural. That's it.
Psychedelic drugs are vastly under-researched and minimally understood, by the way.
To op: you don't know heroin. Let me tell you just this: imagine your strongest orgasm x100 intensity, for the entire trip. I think it's a day. It gets everyone addicted, without a miss. That's what I'm told. Some drugs should never be legalized, like krokodil etc. And LSD can really give you a good experience but it fucked up a lot of people for life as well. Some trips you never, ever get out. Never :/
True, but you can't blame the substance. Something triggered that bad trip, external or internal, and is almost always due to a fault in set/setting.
I don't really care about the legality of "hardcore" chemical drugs (the likes of heroin, meth, amphetamines, synthetic/semi-synthetic opiates, benzodiazepenes...etc). What I care about is the stark idiocy of making naturally available things illegal. The consumption of things like mushrooms, cactus (peyote/San Pedro), root bark (mimosa, banisteriopsis) , marijuana should logically be up to each and every human. You can warn and inform, but it's ridiculous and silly to make nature illegal. This even extends to substances such as LSD, which has shown time and time again its benefit to human beings.
"I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control" - Ken Kesey
Essentially, I keep going because I'm a human, and humans are innately curious, especially towards the situation they're in. In this case, what I mean when I say "situation" is in general, what state we're in, meaning "alive". We want to know what happens tomorrow, to person X and Y, and what happens to us, and consequently what happens in the near future/future.
With that being sad, I keep living because I have no reason to stop. I know death is coming and is something inevitable, so I feel it obsolete to reach that end now out of my own volition. I do not fear it, seeing as it's a necessary end, but rather know its inevitability, and try and make the best out of the situation that I'm currently in.
I don't know what's to come, and I don't know what happens when I die, but I do know that the serotonin and dopamine in my body are keeping me sufficiently happy at this juncture of existence. I feel comfortable and happy waking up the next day because I'm certain I'm gonna do things that are going to make me happy, see people who are going to make me happy, go to places that make me happy. People who aren't happy mainly have themselves to blame, but instead end up blaming fringe things like weight, beauty, and "life".
All things considered, life is beautiful. Its the additives that the political and economical elite added to it that made it turn into this consumerist monopolistic abyss of shit that it is today. As a consequence, things like body mass and hair color now reflect on people's sense of self worth, which in itself is something utterly sad, yet t the same time funny., that we could all be so easily fooled into such nonsense. Humans can find happiness in a grain of sand, yet have reached a phase where the riches of the world do not suffice.
I never feel so down that I can't get out of bed. That's just silly.
I don't know if any of what I said made as much sense as it did in my head, but I feel that it's like explaining or narrating an acid trip, where you know the base of it all, but it's hard to materialize it into concrete words, concepts, and general ideas.
The cries of whaling virgins getting slaughtered whilst simultaneously being violated by a medieval dragon/hydra hybrid. Any other answer is unacceptable.
It's pretty good. I see a couple places which are a little off like her fingers appear to be abnormally thin in my opinion but I mean for not drawing really and also using black pen (its not like you can go back and fix it) it turned out really well.
Not enough of these people have seen Fight Club apparently. I recognized her right away.
It being a silhouette, me using a black pen (very limited shading ability. I literally had to markdown hard then swoop the ink with my fingers and nail it from the first shot to get any hint of shadowing in it at all), and drawing hands being annoying to me anyway, I think her fingers turned out OK. They're not 100% exact, but again..silhouette, black pen, hand drawing.
Hay hay hayyy!
You misunderstood. This topic is asking about drugs. There are two classes of drugs, synthetic and natural. I said all the synthetic ones, I do not really care about. THen I advocated the natural ones, never saying "they should be legal because natural is better than chemical". I said natural should be legal because..well, it's natural. That's it.
Psychedelic drugs are vastly under-researched and minimally understood, by the way.
True, but you can't blame the substance. Something triggered that bad trip, external or internal, and is almost always due to a fault in set/setting.
"I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control" - Ken Kesey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGrYZ6ca3GI
This picture has 3 D's in it.
Get it?
With that being sad, I keep living because I have no reason to stop. I know death is coming and is something inevitable, so I feel it obsolete to reach that end now out of my own volition. I do not fear it, seeing as it's a necessary end, but rather know its inevitability, and try and make the best out of the situation that I'm currently in.
I don't know what's to come, and I don't know what happens when I die, but I do know that the serotonin and dopamine in my body are keeping me sufficiently happy at this juncture of existence. I feel comfortable and happy waking up the next day because I'm certain I'm gonna do things that are going to make me happy, see people who are going to make me happy, go to places that make me happy. People who aren't happy mainly have themselves to blame, but instead end up blaming fringe things like weight, beauty, and "life".
All things considered, life is beautiful. Its the additives that the political and economical elite added to it that made it turn into this consumerist monopolistic abyss of shit that it is today. As a consequence, things like body mass and hair color now reflect on people's sense of self worth, which in itself is something utterly sad, yet t the same time funny., that we could all be so easily fooled into such nonsense. Humans can find happiness in a grain of sand, yet have reached a phase where the riches of the world do not suffice.
I never feel so down that I can't get out of bed. That's just silly.
I don't know if any of what I said made as much sense as it did in my head, but I feel that it's like explaining or narrating an acid trip, where you know the base of it all, but it's hard to materialize it into concrete words, concepts, and general ideas.
On a "trip"
Fucking around
:|
It being a silhouette, me using a black pen (very limited shading ability. I literally had to markdown hard then swoop the ink with my fingers and nail it from the first shot to get any hint of shadowing in it at all), and drawing hands being annoying to me anyway, I think her fingers turned out OK. They're not 100% exact, but again..silhouette, black pen, hand drawing.