they are not drugs to me. when natives ingest psychedelic mushrooms in ritual most do not look at this as taking drugs. psychedelics are only drugs if you take them to get fucked up. this is all my opinion, we may not share the same opinion and i am fine with that.
^ I highly doubt the majority of us here were using whatever psychedelic we used first in some ritual manner. I would say the majority who continue to use them, use them maybe 25% in a 'ritual' manner. I've only used a psychdelic in a ritual manner once in the past year. I don't use them recklessely either though.
You can use them for enlightenment and all that jazz, but psychedelics are still drugs. Anything that affects the way your mind and/or body works is a drug. Even many foods are technically drugs.
yeah you're right. i just meant it more like how you control the feeling. with acid its more of an internal control and with meth, external control. i think an internal control is more difficult to control, like a rudder. as opposed to meth where its more of a cause and effect thing.
Yah i understand what you are saying, I was never that into meth and I definitely say my few experiments with it, I had more control than on LSD. I have heard and even witnessed some pretty bizarre and outrageous behavior from people on meth. My uncle lived with us when i was growing up and was a pretty hardcore meth user once, and the girl i am currently seeing, her father is in jail because he burned down some house or some shit while high on meth and he doesn't even remember it. She says he used to do a whole bunch of weird shit too, like pull over on the freeway and stick his hand out as cars were passing, and burn himself with cigs and shit. Hardly any sense of control, and i wouldn't believe it if i hadn't seen it in my own household growing up.
That sounds about right. lol One of my friends had been awake for almost two weeks on a meth binge and he somehow ended up burying someone's car under a pile of dirt with a bulldozer because he was mad at the dude. haha He later found out that he had gone to the wrong house and buried the wrong person's car. haha
Truth. When taken with respect and care, one can use drugs to highly elevate their mind, their body, their soul, everything. But once people start calling drugs, not-drugs, then I think there's a problem. Never put drugs up that high in importance, is what I think.
I agree. When a person gets to the point that they're trying to rationalize their drug use by claiming they're not drugs, then it's impossible to respect the drugs' potential to cause positive and negative results.
What about nature's natural substances? Like the canabis herb. I feel a little pissed off whenever they're discussing drugs on CNN or something and 'marijuana' always gets thrown into the report.
drugs is just a lame word for any chemical that affects you mentally or physically who cares what you call them
Marijuana is a drug, but it's a wonderful drug:sifone: Morphine is produced by nature, and I highly doubt you're gonna deny that it's a drug. lol Classifying something as a drug doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing. Everyone uses drugs, whether they be legal or illegal drugs.
yeh. I know. I just wish there was more differentian of terms. Soft drugs get umbrella'd with the harsh ones. Seems like we should have more than the one word.
I agree that they shouldn't all be classed together, in regards to the law and misinformation. I don't dislike the fact that all of them are called drugs though. I just think people should be accurately informed, as opposed to only being told about the negative aspects of drug use.
There's nothing very natural about setting a plant on fire and inhaling it. If we're doing natural then alcohol is by far more natural since fermentation of fruits occurs very easily and by accident. I mean if we follow evolution and the fact most things are the way they are for a reason, THC is a "poison". It's not in the plant's benefit for humans to be chopping it down and smoking it, but as a chemical to ward off annoying animals it'd work like many other psychedelics. Humans just have the rational and logical mind to get fun and insight out of said plants.