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0 pointsdyauspitr1y ago0 comments

I’ll back you up but having done shrooms about a dozen times decades ago, you’re really missing out on a truly out of this world experience.

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jojobas1y ago

Betting your life to get a hallucination is not worth it even at 1:10000 odds.

Guess what - you're missing out on a fentanyl high, so awesome that people sell all they have to get more!

nulld3v1y ago

Then you should never step in a vehicle again for the rest of your life, after all, the odds of the average American dying in a vehicle accident every year is 1 in 5000[1]. That doesn't take into account drivers/non-drivers, but I think it's reasonable to assume drivers are at higher risk than pedestrians considering pedestrians make up only a small portion of vehicle-related fatalities [2][3].

I do wonder what the actual odds are of getting injured by psilocybin though.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risky.html

[2] https://www.ghsa.org/resources/Pedestrians23

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

kordlessagain1y ago

This is a false equivalency. Evaluating risks to some individuals reaction based on incomparable research material is irrational and irrelevant. Consider, mathematically, there are infinities that are not the same as other infinities.

Most people who are licensed to drive are unlikely to have a negative reaction from the act of driving for 2 hours under controlled conditions. The same can not be said (at all) about use of mind altering substances, given the mind cannot necessarily be controlled. Set and setting.

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jojobas1y ago

Where I live it's more palatable 1/22k/year, and a lot of that are thrill seekers on motorcycles, drunk drivers etc.

More importantly, driving a car gets me where I want to be, not just triggers an unexpected condition bug in my brain.

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sjm1y ago

Mushrooms have saved more people than they have harmed, I guarantee you. I believe you have a very warped or misguided understanding of what exactly psilocybin is and I'd encourage you to learn.

jojobas1y ago

Hofmann was a mistake, and so was Leary.

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jojobas1y ago

Betting your life to get a hallucination is not worth it even at 1:10000 odds.

Guess what - you're missing out on a fentanyl high, so awesome that people sell all they have to get more!

nulld3v1y ago

I do wonder what the actual odds are of getting injured by psilocybin though.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risky.html

[2] https://www.ghsa.org/resources/Pedestrians23

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

kordlessagain1y ago

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jojobas1y ago

Where I live it's more palatable 1/22k/year, and a lot of that are thrill seekers on motorcycles, drunk drivers etc.

More importantly, driving a car gets me where I want to be, not just triggers an unexpected condition bug in my brain.

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sjm1y ago

Mushrooms have saved more people than they have harmed, I guarantee you. I believe you have a very warped or misguided understanding of what exactly psilocybin is and I'd encourage you to learn.

jojobas1y ago

Hofmann was a mistake, and so was Leary.

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