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really though the main reason why I've tried to shy away from encouraging or posting about drug use too much is because there's a severe lack of education around the topic. not even just with like basic safety shit, but also like pharmacologically it's important to understand what's going on when you do a substance, and worst of all there's also essentially zero knowledge in the west on how to navigate altered states in like a shamanic sort of sense of having a symbolic language for what the experience is going to be like, and really we can blame the boomers for this because when the drug scene exploded with the counterculture it happened in this really idiotic null context of people thinking that taking acid will expand your consciousness in a linearly causal way or that weed is merely a recreational substance. there's this whole westoid mentality of disrespecting the substances that has lead to all sorts of insane cultural neuroses forming around drugs as a result that we have still not recovered from, when really psychedelics in a lot of cases have had the exact opposite effect of consciousness expansion and arguably are in part responsible for the hell world we live in today (there was a huge amount of overlap between the counterculture and Silicon Valley), and weed has been used for thousands of years as an entheogenic substance to induce mystical visions.

these things are rarely as simple and straightforward as the expectations everyone has of them. at a certain point the more I've thought about this the more I've realized it's yet another thing I could write a whole long ass essay or book about. in fact substance abuse and addiction is becoming increasingly normalized as a backlash to the war on drugs but much like the counterculture it's all happening in this idiotic disorganized way that will result in yet another backlash a few years from now. shit sucks