Its crazy how stuff like this is legal and teens used to go to gas stations to buy shit like k2 and saliva.
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TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because that shit will fuck you up. For life. It’s scary how so many of the really dangerous recreational drugs are so easily available while the arguably-less-harmful (and, yes, all drugs have potential for harm) are completely illegal.
Junkhead@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Presently42@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Teens buy saliva nowadays? Idk, maybe it’s my advancing millennial age, but why would anyone buy saliva? Blech 🤢
Junkhead@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
nahh not so much anymore but like 8 years ago they were. I wonder what shit kids are buying from the gas station now?overpriced Kratom?
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think you meant to say salvia, maybe?
PopShark@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mostly nicotine vapes I think, particularly the disposable ones
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
My buddy told me about how his dad found this energy supplement next to the dick pills at a gas station, said ‘what the hell, why not’ and it made him feel really weird and gross, which took him by total surprise, and he had to pull over to avoid causing an accident because he was driving.
It was kratom. They sell kratom as an energy supplement at gas stations next to the dick pills. With no warning of the addiction or withdrawal symptoms associated with it being similar to that of opioids. He’d never even heard of the stuff before. (Apparently it’s been dubbed ‘gas station heroin’. In my state it’s sold at a lot of smoke shops, but at least you know what you’re buying there.)
Now, I admit, I didn’t see the bottle myself. Maybe my buddy’s dad is a dumbass (actually, no maybe about it, he certainly is from the stories I’ve heard), maybe the people that buy those supplements from dick pill stand or drink strange elixirs without thinking much about it don’t deserve my sympathy, but in an ideal world that kind of warning would at the very least be really hard to miss before you take it and especially before you get behind the wheel of a car…
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
lsd my beloved :( ostracised because they had to put hippies in prison for something. schedule I with no medical uses my ass too, that ban stopped every ongoing research into how lsd could help in psychiatry, and though research wasn’t finished it sure as hell didn’t look like it was useless. The US drug enforcement administration lied in nearly every single part of their statement following the ban
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
US Government: “A substance that makes people more empathetic? This could destroy the American way of life!”
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
bruh you have no idea how correct you are on that
“By the mid-1960s the backlash against the use of LSD and its perceived corrosive effects on cultural values resulted in governmental action to restrict the availability of the drug by making use of it illegal.[29]”
now let’s all have a sit down and think about the state of the “cultural values” if feeling love towards your fellow human beings, and jamming to music is somehow corrosive to them… just- i have no idea how people fell for that bullshit
Glytch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Quick LSD anecdote: LSD literally reminded me what actual happiness feels like. I’ve struggled with depression for much of my life and had a stretch of about a decade where my mood never rose above the level of “meh” and was often much worse than that. LSD filled me with joy and allowed me to feel happiness again even after I came back down.
For that reason I will forever be an LSD advocate.
flames5123@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I love the “afterglow” of psychedelics. It’s one of the main reason I take them. They have changed so many lives and I can’t wait to see how widely accepted they are in the future.