• Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I smoked some opium once when I was travelling and it was possibly the most pleasant experience of my entire life. Shortly after that I was left alone in a hostel room with someone who was dying from an overdose on it, which was possibly the most unpleasant.

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      9 months ago

      We both know this is made up. Opiate overdose victims just go unconscious and their heart rate slows down to nothing. Then again I’m arguing with someone who thinks traveling is spelled with two ls despite spell check being present literally everywhere.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        Then again I’m arguing with someone who thinks traveling is spelled with two ls despite spell check being present literally everywhere.

        You do realize other countries exist other than the US, right? Travelling is correct pretty much everywhere outside the US.

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          9 months ago

          None that matter. Does it sound like I care? Any other revolutionary ideas you want to share encyclopedia Brown?

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Drugs feel amazing. Getting high is like the fucking grand canyon, one of the things in life that lives up to the hype. Doing drugs makes you happier than you thought you could be, and there are a lot of people who don’t have a lot of reasons to be happy.

    We shouldn’t pretend that drugs are bad, mm-kay. Drugs are awesome. That’s the problem. They’re too awesome. It’s an awesome overload, and you end up not wanting to do anything except for drugs.

    People who do drugs are not evil. They’re having fun, experiencing new things, making friends and bonding over shared experiences. You tell a bunch of kids that drugs will ruin their lives, and then somebody at a party passes them a joint or offers them a bump of coke, they’re going to realize you were full of shit.

    Like, let’s say that there was some weird flesh-eating bacteria that was specifically found only on water slides, but only on a few water slides. Now it’s your job to convince all the children of the world to avoid water slides, because of the small possibility of bacteria. It’s a serious problem, and it would be correct to tell everyone to avoid all waterslides everywhere, even if only a small percentage of waterslide riders died horrible deaths. So you tell people waterslides might kill you or maim you in excruciating ways. But if you act like waterslides aren’t fun, you lose all credibility. Most people who ride the waterslides don’t die, and they go on to tell everyone how much fun they had on waterslides, and that doesn’t make them bad people.

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      9 months ago

      I have no words almost…

      But your little declaration somehow perversly juxtapositions the odd 100 000 deaths from drug overdoses in the US alone last year.

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          9 months ago

          Yes, since it’s such an awfully negligent way of thinking.

          I’d worry some poor young soul listening to the type of ‘adult individual’, falling into a fentanyl addiction, for example, thinking it ‘fun and safe’ forever ruining their life.

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            9 months ago

            I think this person probably was referring to lesser drugs such as cannabis or cocaine. Lumping them all together is the problem.

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              9 months ago

              I mean, did you look at the post? Smoking meth isn’t exactly better…