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Comment Re:Another way to bankrupt Social Security (Score 1) 66

You do realize that attempting to control people though fear is sooooo last millennia

Of course you don't want children using any mind altering substances, unless it's ritilin, adderall, sri's etc...

Funny thing, I grew up in the 70's, and as feral children, we were drawn to the forbidden. By the time I was 18 I had direct experience with a number of hallucinogens, and... not dead

What HAS been a direct issue for people I have known are pharmaceuticals, or their street analogs, opioids, amphetamines and even good ole' "natural" cocaine

The unfortunate addition of all hallucinogens to DEA schedule 1 list, tied to the APA's insistence that they cause mental illness, along with the international conventions on drug control, has prevented real medical study and prevented doctors, therapists, even inDUHviduals access to something with real benefits

So I get it, we are supposed to give up so many good things, "FOR THE CHILDREN", because... why?

Comment Re:Beef Wellington (Score 2) 66

Arizonan here, our spiders will cause deep lesions, rattlesnakes will kill or maim you, one of the hastiest ants is widespread, BUT you can lick our toads and have a religious experience

It is far too dry in most of the state for wild psilocybin to be available, but the local shamans have a wide range of psychoactives they have used for centuries

Come for the weather (118F yesterday), stay for the mind alterations

Comment Re:X is not 'press' (Score 5, Insightful) 42

The Nazi apparatus leveraged the existing German press, who promoted the idea that Germany was going to win WW1 until they were sold out by the Jewish bankers

It was this propagandizing through the press that destroyed critical thinking in Germany and allowed Hitler to take over with a constant stream of lies and constant blaming others for Germany's failures

This is EXTREMELY similar to the effect that Fox News has had on the American right wing and turned them into propagandized idiots who are open to all of Trumps lies and assertion of blame on others

Comment Re:Not surprising it's more toxic (Score 2) 85

And you are the one killing off monarch butterflies and bees with your obsession vision of a perfect lawn

Pollinators that are attracted to your pesticide laden 'flowers', (probably not local species they are adapted to), take it back to their hive and hurt the entire colony, while monarch butterflies rely on milkweed, something that only appears in untended lawns, and exceeds the weed height allowed by most municipalities

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