Posted by jay on March 1, 2003, at 3:17:51
In reply to Are you seriously recommending LSD » Eddie Sylvano, posted by Jack Smith on February 28, 2003, at 13:00:34
> I ain't no war on drugs zealot, I am actually pretty much for legalization. BUT are you seriously recommending that this kid do LSD? That is extermely irresponsible. Read his story, he freaked out on mushrooms and now you are telling him to do LSD!!!! COME ON NOW.
>I do agree with Jack, mostly around hallucinogenics, that there can be some nasty danger. They are extremely unpredictable which is my biggest worry, very much unlike the usual worry of a 'hangover' or crash from coke or smoking opium or doing heroin. It's your choice of course, and I don't think Jack or myself are trying to instil the silly rhetoric of the *war on drugs* movement. It's just from experience and many others I have known, the drugs I would most likely avoid with having a mental illness is hallucinogenics. It's not even the *scare tactics* about after-effects, but just what I might and have done while on them. See my other post.
I am lucky also to have a family I love, and who loves, cares for me. (Not married..but parents, brother and sister, Niece and Nephews, etc..) It is for them that I try my hardest not to kill or harm myself, because they have gone the extra million miles for me.I am lucky, but this isn't to say anybody else is uncaring or selfish for harming themselves. I am starting to believe this may be a possible evolutionary-biological problem, and that suicide and SI are buried in genetics traced back to the amoeba. These issues have been recorded back as far back as "recorded" history goes. So, maybe using whatever substances or methods to eventually alter this genetic code (or turn on or off genetic predisposition) isn't such a bad thing. I don't believe in Eugenics or that stuff (I *hate* it and am disgusted by it, as it was used, abused by Nazis and shown it's utterly horrid consequences), but individually, I think we have a right to mess with our own genetic material if we wish. (Which I think medications have the possibility, in some way, to do, through mutagenic means or whatever.)
Sorry for the *rant*...it's late. Just IMHO.
Jay
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