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[deleted] t1_jaaq126 wrote

As a person who has never done drugs or hallucinogens, and I have absolutely no interest in them...

All recreational drugs should be legalized, and there should only be laws on them in relation to what you can and cannot do while high. For example, no driving while coked up or hallucinating on some mushrooms.

Other than that, any individual action a man does in the privacy of his own home is their business, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

Resources should always be made available for addiction just like any other addictions that are legal, such as alcohol or gambling.

I'll never do drugs but I value freedom, and letting values be taught at home rather than the government acting as Mommy and Daddy.

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bunkerbash t1_jacjari wrote

Wholly agree. The criminalizing of only certain drugs is intentionally done to feed the prison labor system and withhold care and support from those with mental health disorders. It’s a maddeningly archaic way to run a country, but I suppose as long as it makes the ultra rich even richer it’s unlikely to change.

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Prudent-Ball2698 t1_jab5u2j wrote

If our elected persons had your view, we'd besides have a more booming economy around producing and distribution of these legal substances, make well over what we do in weed taxes, probably multiples. And we'd set the stage as the first actual state to legalize everything recreational and set up places to get it. It's my dream that we set up somewhere or places here to grow, regulate, and distribute coke and mushrooms and lad, even heroin. Besides decreasing overdose rates, we'd control it all, alot of that tax would probably go to recovery efforts and we'd have alot more jobs which we definitely need as a atate

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[deleted] t1_jab5zvy wrote

But why tax legalized drugs when they can keep taxing my cars every year 😭

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Prudent-Ball2698 t1_jablt1q wrote

I'm against taxes as we have the richest govt on earth , but if it was entirely funneled for help to people who are truly addicted I'd be happy w it, I'm a coke guy, did 6 years in prison for it, from 17-23 but I'd honestly rather thar then sending money overseas. Plus we can use it to help our vets who desperately need it, if we aren't caring for them why are we allowing every immigrant to come illegally

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Dirt_Bike_Zero t1_jabwtnq wrote

That's a great stance to have. Besides all that, it would also open up the medical research side of things to. It's a shame that the world's oldest medicine and ritualistic substance has been criminalized.

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Nexrender t1_jacsrzx wrote

Not to mention testing facilities would massively crack down on fentanyl overdoses.

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ZaggahZiggler t1_jaaq4su wrote

It would be nice to see, though I think too many people don’t understand the mushroom experience and think it’s like LSD, which they also don’t understand.

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Agile_Grizzly OP t1_jaarkqw wrote

Yeah that's what I worry about when it comes to this bill. I hope the recent psychedelic assisted therapy press helps with perception

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Phantastic_Elastic t1_jad72p3 wrote

I think it actually is like LSD, speaking from numerous personal experiences. Actually the science tends to say that too. The two psychoactive drugs actually work on the same chemical pathway in the human body. Side effects are not exactly the same but they're pretty damn close.

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ZaggahZiggler t1_jadb5t2 wrote

You can say that for edibles versus smoking marijuana and they are still two different experiences. My point was your average person has no idea what either are like and in general have an idea regarding LSD based on movies, propaganda, or outlandish ideas of what the experience is.

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Prudent-Ball2698 t1_jab63g0 wrote

I'd rather lsd tbh, mushrooms I always yack my guts up or atleast feel sick as fuck from them

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NostraVoluntasUnita t1_jacpwux wrote

Its the insoluble fiber. Make a tea instead, worked for me. Now if only I could stop it from making my nose run.

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IndicationOver t1_jaapeh0 wrote

Marijuana and maybe Shrooms?

This should help with the boredom that is always talked about

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Prudent-Ball2698 t1_jab6u8q wrote

Very hard to be bored on mushrooms, imo not possible, took a quarter once, my cats were the funniest things ever lol

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hydrationdome t1_jab9xxe wrote

The research involving Psilocybin and depression/PTSD is pretty positive and extensive at this point, I hope it is decriminalized. There are plenty of pretty much harmless hippie types serving MAJOR time in prison for growing mushrooms who should be released or at the very least have their sentences reduced. I'm not saying anyone who's ever sold mushrooms is an angel or anything but it's not exactly dealing fent. Also I don't really like being told what I can put in my own brain but that's just me.

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curbthemeplays t1_jabcfm7 wrote

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/New-CT-law-paves-way-for-widespread-psychedelic-17165230.php

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hydrationdome t1_jabd0ec wrote

After reading that article it sounds far more likely a few companies who grease the right hands will be granted permission as opposed to state wide decriminalization. Serves me right for reacting to the headline. I guess that's how recreational cannabis dispensaries started so maybe there's reason for optimism

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Beneficial_Look_5854 t1_jaaxvka wrote

Doubt it will pass, the WASPs are still bugging out about edibles

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Agile_Grizzly OP t1_jab7los wrote

Yeah unfortunately I've seen that on my town's FB page

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tugboater203 t1_jab6qkm wrote

Considering how late to the game we are with Marijuana, it doesn't seem likely.

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CrunchyCrunch816 t1_jabwp81 wrote

You guys realize how many boomers live in CT right? They’d rather get shipped back To Vietnam then see this

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Prudent-Ball2698 t1_jab59l1 wrote

Let's decriminalize it all. The only way to win this "war on drugs"

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Agile_Grizzly OP t1_jab7oo8 wrote

This is the way

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Prudent-Ball2698 t1_jabm127 wrote

Man the day I can walk into a dispo for a gram of coke that's pure made from old school ether, I'd pay 100 easy, esp if that's tax money going to recover or especially our veterans that suffer

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Prudent-Ball2698 t1_jabmdja wrote

Sad part is our country's VA doesn't give a shit my grandpa survived 3 strikes of cancer, between prostate and colon. We do this, and I'd March the atate capitol for ir,, we can save him and men like him. The VA doesn't care. I give him cbd and it helps kill it, made rso for him when he was In chemo the second time. It's really sad how we just condemn our vets to the VA and they should very well get top their treatment as soldiers, they get dog shit

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curbthemeplays t1_jabc57s wrote

It will happen. Unfortunately CT was behind many other states on weed.

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nsfdrag t1_jack656 wrote

Hell yeah, at least make it easier for trials of micodosing during therapy to treat drug resistant depression and anxiety.

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phunky_1 t1_jaf0ye8 wrote

Psychedelics like mushrooms and lsd being illegal is unconstitutional IMO as it is government restricting the constitutional right to freedom of religion.

A psychedelic experience with spiritual intent brings you closer to "god" than going to church on Sunday.

Use of mushrooms in particular as a religious sacrament dates back thousands of years.

The problem is society as a whole hasn't embraced the concept and taught people that they are a spiritual tool, not just something to do to get high/fucked up.

There are also other legitimate medical uses such as curing alcoholism and treating PTSD, depression. It can help reset your brain/soul and bring you closer to overall well being.

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