Seriously

Hippies don't exist anymore. I used to think that I was.. That the world could be peaceful. But it can't. So much shit happens in the world each and every day that make it an evil place to live. You CAN'T be a hippie these days. You'll just be looked at as a drug addict. Back in the 60's, You could have been considered a hippie because people weren't just using drugs. They were protesting for peace. Trying to make a difference in the world.

What i'm saying is people just do drug these days.. and have nothing to show for it. People think the world is peaceful. Its NOT! Just because bad things don't happen where you are doesn't mean it isn't happening somewhere else. Right now in this moment in time someone is being tortured, raped, or murdered. Its really a sad but true statement.

The expansion of the mind doesn't have to be achieved by drug usage. It can be achieved through stuff like reading, meditating, learning, and so forth.

If you think drugs will help you in anyway. Your wrong. Drugs do more harm then good. That goes for anything. If everyone in the world was doing cocaine would it be considered harmless? Hell fucking no. People think Alcohol or Weed is ok.. I do myself. But when you really think about it. They both kill you slowly.. And don't argue with me Weed doesn't kill you. It contributes to cancer if done long enough. It also kills brain cells.

I know this one man who done acid for 20 years.. Street acid. Not the real shit you could have gotten back then. He is 40 years old.. He looks like he is 80. The website erowid doesn't have all the facts for all the drugs. You can research about a drug all day long, but until you talk to a doctor who specializes in drugs and who has actually studied them, You got nothing. Just a bunch of rumors and first hand experiences. Because let me tell ya, each drug has a different effect on each and every person. Many factors contribute to the way you will feel. Think about that.

I would love to hear what anyone else thinks about this whole ordeal. Because of course we have our own viewpoints. But I ask of you this, Don't let the drugs talk. Let yourself talk. Let the facts flow into your head.. Ha :beatdeadhorse5:

 

if there was nothing to protest about, e.g. war or crime, then there would be no need for these countercultures like hippies who disagree with, or completely disregard the social order.

secondly, I agree with you that drugs do more harm than good, but body is made up of countless biochemical reactions to begin with, and enhancing the effect or producing new effects somehow can get lost along the way. Consider, a cocaine rush in a multi-flexible network of neural connections. lets say you do one line, you produce a dopamine rush. but your brain will rewire everything in minutes. where then is the braindamage? people who suffer severe strokes can learn to walk and talk again, because the brain has the abillity to rewire around the damaged tissue. what is then the braindamage in the healthy brain of a coke user? you can sacrifice a few neural pathways that exhaust themselves by continuous use imo.

 

You can only change yourself and you might as well try. Otherwise you'll just end up doing something else that takes just as much effort.

 

Alright.. I'll come up with a synthesis for hippies..
This is the drug chemistry forum after all.. :hat:

 

hahah..

 

lol. I see what you are saying. But I mean. Consider the fact that people are out there doing cocaine and what not everyday.. Thus making it harder each time for the brain to repair itself. Doing it each day for 2 years say.. It'll take the brain years to recover and thats only if the only drug they are using. I mean if someone is in fact doing cocaine, they are more than likely drinking and smoking and maybe doing other drugs as well. So that adds to the problem...

I mean not to say that weed and alcohol are extremely intolerable to the body, but mixing any other drugs with it creates these crazy ass receptors that are bad for the brain. I know plenty who do cocaine, drink, and smoke all at the same time.

I also know this one guy who smoked tons of weed for years and he has no emotions anymore what so ever. Drugs have different effects on different people.

But I know people are going to do these drugs anyway. I did DXM for many years each and every day at very high doses and almost turned my brain into mush literally.

Just saying though.. I thought I was a hippie then.. cause I was doing many psychadelics and what not. But now that I look back I see myself as a stupid young kid who didn't know what the fuck he was doing.

 

Off topic.

 

Not really, It ties into drug chemistry. Look at my post a little closer. Ha.

 

No it doesn't. Quote me one line that's about synthesis or extraction, or even mentions any kind of reagent.

Once again: off topic. This should be in the general psychedelics forum.

 

Wow. Once again, Your dumb.

"Consider the fact that people are out there doing cocaine and what not everyday.. Thus making it harder each time for the brain to repair itself."

What the hell do you call that? Its called Drug chemistry in the Brain. Wow. Stop trying so hard to be an asshole.

 

this was a very popular lsd cook for the hippies back in the day.

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/humor/humor_joke5.shtml

 

Drug chemistry in the Brain

 

You may want to talk to some of your experts about the relationship between weed and cancer. If they use scientific studies of humans to back up their information (that is, if they tell you the truth) I think you will be surprised.

 

need i remind you?

"Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life." -Timothy Leary

i wouldn't be so quick to make judgements. just because you're not aware of it, does NOT mean that there isn't anyone out there who still lives the message of peace and love every single day of their lives.

 

LSDMIKE and Orison - LOL!

Peacegrow -Well I know their is a big debate at this moment for weed to be legalized just so people with cancer can smoke and not have to worry about jail. I agree weed is good for some things, but just like everything elses it has its cons. I'm a pot smoker myself. Hell I love it to death. I only smoke on the weekends to relax after a long stressful weekend in college. Maybe chill with some friends. But nothing too crazy. All I'm saying is their are people out their who misuse the drug. Who have no respect for it whatsoever. I also think that weed will never be legalized because of that simple fact. But i could be wrong.. I mean we are in a great need for money in this moment in time for our economy. If it was legalized, we would be the richest nation in the UNIVERSE. lol.

Cherokeemist - True that.. I've just never seen them.. And the people I have seen claming to be hippies were just straight up drug addicts.

 

ya ok whatever,dad

 

Dumb? Hahaha. Ok, I'm dumb.

No, that has very little to do with chemistry. That would fall more under the "effects of abuse" category. Besides, that's not even the topic of the post. The topic is about basically being a hippie.

I don't have to try hard to be an asshole when I'm dealing with 12-year-olds who think they know something. It just comes naturally.

 

Ive done a few lines in my days, now im in university... so from my personal point of view, i just dont seem to be doing bad in spite of that, look at those geeks who never touch the stuff and they dont even have a job and sit on welfare and never finished high school...

cocaine does not create new receptors, it creates new neural pathways in the brain because you are rushing.... and true that its effects can exhaust existing receptors, but hey, you can learn to use your time while high wisely, and, coke can make you a genius... its that powerful

 

Prove it lol. Cocaine has way more cons then pros for sure. I mean check out the statistics on people who have lost everything because of that one drug. I would in no way consider that drug good at all. It almost pulled me into addiction but I was smart enough to stop beforehand. Did it one time and I instantly wanted more after it was gone.. Not saying everyone is like me. But hell, Its that addictive. But those geeks don't have to worry about a addiction. I would much rather be on welfare and have nothing then have an addiction. Fer sureee.