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I’ll agree that mushrooms can be a powerful tool, maybe we will disagree on what it means to be “functional.” I don’t think people tripping helps them function better. I do like how you mentioned that psychedelics can be a tool for growth, I’d agree there. In my experience, people don’t recognize when it’s time to put the drugs away and focus on other tools for personal growth. Drugs shouldn’t be a long term solution.

I don’t want the only legal method of consuming these mushrooms to be with a yuppy doctor who is so far detached from the cultural significance of entheogenic plants, and calls it “therapy.” This feels like a grift.

You may be right about not disregarding therapies because someone might abuse them.

The main issue I have is that I don’t want the only legal method of consuming these mushrooms to be with a yuppy doctor who is so far detached from the cultural significance of entheogenic plants, and calls it “therapy.” This feels like a grift!

I understand I’m probably in the minority and that this becoming law will be inevitable. I’ll still shout at the cloud!!

I don’t want the only legal method of consuming these mushrooms to be with a yuppy doctor who is so far detached from the cultural significance of entheogenic plants, and calls it “therapy.” This feels like a grift.

Grow them yourself. Forage them yourself. That’s part of the experience. You might be rewarded with a good trip.

My dude. They’re growing out of the freaking ground lmao

Mushrooms aren’t a crutch. That’s just the thing. A trip isn’t gonna cure your ailments. It’s going to make you think differently for a bit, but when it wears off you’re back at square one. No one needs to do mushrooms to “survive.” You’re out here romanticizing powerful drugs.

News flash, everyone is “detached from reality.” They’ll be even more detached from reality when they’re on mushrooms. You and I obviously don’t share the same world view when it comes to powerful psychedelic drugs, and that’s okay.

I’m in favor of decriminalization of all drugs. But turning a sacred medicine into a commodity and branding it as therapy or a “cure all” for mental issues rubs me the wrong way. People have gone to jail for possession and cultivation of these substances.

And now the state wants to sanction it so yuppy doctors can charge people for mushrooms? No thanks.

And then tripping becomes a crutch to get through daily life. Next thing you know, people are microdosing every day, and it becomes abused.

I speak from experience with these types of people. One of my old roommates was like this and had multiple suicide attempts. The psychedelics were just another way to escape what he was really going through. We need people who are grounded in reality, not with their heads up in the clouds.

Sure. Neither was “medical” booze during prohibition or “medical” marijuana.

It’s not a cure all for mental illness. A lot of people seem to think a trip will get rid of your derision or anxiety, but it could very well make it significantly worse.

Profit? Off a sacred medicine? That’s exactly why I’m opposed to this bill and why I oppose legalization. It’s a perversion if something sacred. White people are looking to profit off something that holds cultural significance to several peoples throughout the continent.

No one is holding you back from getting your fix and getting your high. Don’t champion this as a noble cause when your motives are corrupted by money.

How noble of you. Pretending to care about grandma just so you can get high.