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The Middle-Class Women Who Are Tripping Balls
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I said nothing about legality or illegality.
I think I made a lot of other points besides the remark that we need to reform most drug laws.
The other point you made was "psychedelics aren't necessarily worse than alcohol or cannabis", and I feel like I already responded to a similar point elsewhere.
Getting drunk (or high) with children in the house is also not good. I would not expect that to be applauded either.
You mentioned "responsible" alcohol use. Getting drunk around your children is not responsible alcohol use.
People who drink responsibly either have a single drink or two and stop before they get intoxicated, or they go out and hire a babysitter, or they send the kids to the grandparents for the night.
(If you are "tripping balls" and unable to drive, you are intoxicated.)
I didn't say "get drunk" around children. I said use alcohol responsibly. Do you believe one can do that around alcohol, or is everyone who has a glass of wine with dinner an irresponsible parent?
Just like with alcohol, the dosage matters. The mother isn't "tripping balls" by doing a bit of MDMA or shrooms. That's just exaggeration by the article. There's no mention of a dosage, but to "trip balls" on MDMA, you'd need to do quite a bit. Same with shrooms. Several times the normal recreational dose, just like with alcohol.
But one or two drinks is still intoxication. It might be very mild intoxication, but it is intoxication. You might not believe it, but actually, similarly responsible low dosage recreational use exists with other substances as well. Just because your chosen drug is illegal doesn't mean you shoot it up into your eyeballs and don't stop until your whole stash is gone and then go out to prostitute yourself to get some more.
Have you ever had any serotonergic substances, like shrooms, LSD, ecstasy? No? You have no idea how they influence you and how they might or might not impair you? But.. I do? And other people do? And science seems to support the things we say about them; people who haven't used them always fearmonger over them, they're less harmful and less impairing than alcohol, and still more pleasant. It's a wholly different effect.
Do you think people who have a prescription for sedatives or antianxiety medications are irresponsible parents? Should they take their children to stay somewhere every time they take an Ambien before they go to bed? Oh wait.. then, they'd never sleep in the same place, unless there were other people there as well? Don't you think it extremely irresponsible to have a sleeping aid before bed... you know, in case of an emergency. Better — just to be safe — take your kids to your in-laws every single night that you might be inclined to think you need a sleeping aid.
I don't believe you could stand behind something like that in good faith.
And I know that an Ambien impairs a person more than a light recreational dose of LSD or ecstasy or shrooms.
You said in another comment:
You're the one who said you wouldn't be fit to drive a car.
And I'm not trying to defend alcohol use, but after one or two drinks (depending on your body size), you can still legally drive a car.
(And this isn't some bizarre hypothetical. There are plenty of people who have a glass of wine with dinner, and that's it. They're not drinking for any of the intoxicating effects of alcohol.)
In any case, I still don't see how "it's less harmful than alcohol" means we should be applauding its use, unless you think that its use would result in less alcohol use.
And I doubt anyone would be cheering about increased Ambien use among Texas housewives.
After one or two drinks, you are intoxicated, and by so little, that most think "oh, I'm not affected". Which is why driving after the first one or two is actually more risky than the people who drive when they think they're just on the edge of the limit. This is countries with a limit of 0.5‰, meaning 0.05%. Above that it's really irresponsible to be driving, and in the US, you'd legally be allowed to drive with a 0.8‰ BAC. It's insane, honestly, and the drinking and driving culture in the States is something pretty abhorrent to me. In the sense that a lot of people think that it's "okay to have a couple".
It's not.
Because during the first drinks, your "bias" is the highest. You'll feel as if you'd be able to drive really well. Confidence is up. You don't think you're gonna make mistakes. Which is why so many mistakes happen.
You don't understand what being on LSD/MDMA feels like, but as I said, it's less impairing than alcohol. The point is that it would not be responsible to drive a car. I bet that I'd still outdrive you and many others with a recreational dose under my belt. But I wouldn't be fit in the sense that it wouldn't be responsible to drive under the effect of any potentially intoxicating substance.
I don't know, I'm a third generation taxi driver and maybe I'm imposing too strict morals here, but it really seems like you have a really strong double-standard going on here. Driving drunk is fine, but being at home on MDMA isn't if the kids are there?
But would you go far as to say it's irresponsible for a parent to take an Ambien if there's children in the house?
You keep doing this. You keep saying "cheering" and "applauding" and whatever synonyms one might come up with for the act of encouraging something. No-one has encouraged anything.
What you remind me is a pearl clutching aunt/uncle in the 90's who's getting upset over a gay character in a movie. "No but think of how this will encourage children to be gay, this shouldn't be in movies!"
No, it won't. Just like writing an article about MDMA use doesn't mean that people are advocating for everyone to be high 247. Or even try out MDMA or something. Which, I could actually advocate for anyone to do if they're in a position to and never have. It certainly would help you a lot with your psychological hangups. I thought you genuinely wanted to know why people do it. But no, you're just another willfully ignorant person who's spreading the propaganda they so easily bought into.
That's why people do it.
When I said applauding, I was refering to people in this thread, not the writer of the article.
And I didn't say driving drunk was okay.
Also, I feel like you're being unnecessarily hostile by repeatedly calling me ignorant and accusing me of pearl-clutching, and if you keep if up, I'm just gonna block you.
I have a bit of knowledge about this topic too, you know.
Again, you're ignoring all the points. Thus you are being willfully ignorant about the facts of the matter. I'm not calling you an ignorant person in general. I'm saying you — like at least >50% of people — are being willfully ignorant.
You're treating taking MDMA as if it was impairing, while you don't seem to have experience on what taking serotonergic substances feels like. You're dismissing the points on why people do it, despite that being your question originally, as far as I understood.
If you're perceiving this as hostile, it's probably because you're not perceiving your comments or attitude as in any way offensive. When they are. It's offensive to be generalised as a "drug user", which equates peaceful, responsible recreational users to abusers using "proper" hard drugs.
Alright, I'm blocking you.
There's no point in conversing with someone calling me a liar.
Again, willfully ignorant. Literally. I make a joke about not believing you, because you display things which show your lack of knowledge. Then you ignore every other point.
I've had this conversation a thousand times.