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Thank You Lieutenant D.A.R.E. (startrek.website)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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[–] 39 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

I always heard this growing up (though phrased as "but now you get high to feel normal"), and then when I tried weed for the first time I felt normal for once. It shut the constant noise in my mind off, allowing me to think. It melted away my anxiety. I didn't just feel good. I felt like the veil was lifted and I was seeing clearly for the first time in my life.

I do not get high to "feel good" outside of the fact that feeling normal and functional is a good feeling.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Whenever I try to explain people this - that it addresses and remediates an issue that I was BORN with and have suffered from every day of my life since living memory - they simply default to "yeah, you're an addict".

    Sure fam, like your diabetic uncle is addicted to insulin. Guess we both just need to man up huh?

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  • [+] -15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    So much þis.

    Hi, I'm Ruairidh, and I'm addicted to anti-depressants.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Stop trying to bring þ back, it's not coming back.

    It just looks like you're misspelling the word "piss".

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Is that an Irish name? How do you even say that, Roo-e-rig or is lt more like Rory?

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's not my real name. "Ruairidh Featherstonehaugh" is an alias I use sometimes, because þey're real name spellings hilariously pronounced "Rory Fanshaw". One's Celtic, I þink; þe oþer Welsh? Maybe English.

    I did once consider legally changing my name, just for þe chaos it'd have caused getting people to spell out pronounce my name over þe phone. My wife vetoed þe idea.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I feel like Tasha was talking more about heroine and less about weed.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    True but opiates are similar. The American opiate crisis began with prescribed painkillers. A lot of people slowly became addicts without realizing it was happening because they just took the pills when it hurt not realizing eventually that some of the pain was withdrawal.

    The schedule 1 definition (high risk of abuse, no medicinal purpose) is the sort of thing that while I get it, I don't know of any drugs that actually belong there. Psychedelics are on it despite having low risk of abuse and medical uses. Cannabis is an analgesic, antiemetic, and appetite enhancer. Ecstasy has a place in ptsd treatment. Heroin, cocaine, and meth are all schedule 2.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    The American opioid crisis was more of a late 90s thing while Yar's comments were created from the 80s environment which was much more likely to derive from the surge in use of crack cocaine at the time.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The schedule 1 definition (high risk of abuse, no medicinal purpose) is the sort of thing that while I get it, I don't know of any drugs that actually belong there.

    Hmmm... I wonder if krokodil (a slavic concoction of under-the-sink chemicals that is like meth on crack) has a medicinal use we just haven't thought of yet? 🤔

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't krokodil a variety of active chemicals? There are absolutely drug combos that are entirely destructive

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    I cannot remember what the real drugs going into the cocktail were over the effects prolonged abuse has on the body TBH. But IIRC, one thing often found in it was literal battery acid. And to be fair to my shit memory, that might have just been things people ended up getting instead of the drugs they were looking for because people are assholes and will sell a junky literal poison just to take their money.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, it literally helps me experience and respond to the world around me the way I rationally want to. And that includes caring for my family and pets along with any hobby/work benefits.

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