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Drug privilege?

Psychedelics have a rare privilege in how they are seen among drugs. With it they carry a common narrative, which requires paradoxical thinking to embrace. Countless trip stories describe a person being torn into pieces, as they fall into a lower dimensional hell. Soul lost, brain hacked, person violated. Highly unpleasant things that are universally accepted as negative. However, psychedelic users insist people believe these bad trips were NOT real enough to justify condemning the drug as some “Damned Cthulhuian brain poison”. Even though users openly admit “it made them go mad” and “they were never the same after”. They insist bad trips are merely “adrenaline induced panic attacks, as seen from the inside”. This would be an interesting and somewhat compelling argument, if it were not for psychedelic users simultaneously insisting people ALSO believe the GOOD trips were REAL. Real enough to justify the drugs as legitimate and recommended “medicinal” substances. That good trips are somehow tapping into universal consciousness/wisdom, teleporting users into a higher realm. Learning the secrets to the universe! Yet they somehow never invent any technology or cure a physical disease when they return from a trip. Some might call this being a bullshit artists but we’ll just call it big brain-derp theory, for lack of more polite terminology.

It paints a very odd contradiction. Especially when psychedelic users often straight up tell people, malevolent interdenominational aliens messed with them, hurt them and it’s permanent. How they are terrified of tripping again. Yet they still do it over and over, while insisting everyone else do it as well to “expand their minds”. Interesting how other drugs/activities give an adrenaline rush, yet seldom give an “adrenaline induced panic attack”. Also interesting how some psychedelics that don’t produce an adrenaline rush, can still give bad trips. In fact, most examples of such drug related panic attacks are experienced by PDSD patients or psychedelic users having a “flashbacks”. Many psychedelic users openly admit they feel as if they could “fall back into the void at any time”. It’s as if psychedelics cause a form of PDSD. It’s as if your subconscious usually knows when the body is in danger, hence the activation of fight or flight response. An important detail often overlooked is: Adrenaline rush isn’t exclusive to fight or flight. Though an adrenaline may be experienced, the mind does not normally deploys flight or fight response specifically when: riding a roller coaster, doing a line of coke or taking a shot of whiskey. However, the mind almost ALWAYS deploys fight or flight response at some point while doing psychedelics. It’s so common that many users take measures to combat fight or flight response to their drug. It shouldn’t be a surprise the mind reacts this way, since the subconscious is directly connected to the body and holds our survival instincts. It is only a surprise to those who don’t want to admit an apparent danger.

The unfortunate double standards held by psychedelics, disable logical debate that might hurt the psychedelic narrative. The drug relies upon metaphysics but denies logical application of such physics. Utilizing that famous intellectual loophole device: Relativity. Relativity or subjective conjecture. A default scapegoat when fictitious arguments can’t hold their intellectual position without engaging in hypocritical fallacy. Psychedelics wants the spiritual world to exist only when it supports it’s bias for the drug being good. It demands we believe the human mind can open portals into infinite dimensions but trips give first hand testimony, it’s not predictable which dimensions are opened. If one engages the argument with an open mind, one could easily say the lay-line you were standing on or the chemicals or bacteria in the food you ate that day, changed the dimension you opened. None of which makes it any safer. As soon as these concerns are aired though, psychedelic users flip back to a non-spiritual nihilistic science based argument, claiming: “it’s all just illusions caused by chemicals in your brain”. Hence the double standard, which proves their arguments invalid. Psychedelics claims to know much but in application knows extremely little. Deploying excuses like “people just need to do it more to learn how it works”. People have been doing these drugs for decades. Very little has changed. In fact, it’s arguable NOTHING has changed for the better. It all just sounds like an excuse to keep doing drugs, which unfortunately for the users, is a classic symptom of addiction.

Psychedelics have the rare privilege of being openly and admittedly dangerous, yet are promoted by both common drug users and the elite 1% alike as “medical miracles”.