• Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You know that theory that hallucinogens helped us move up from apes? Maybe humanity is ready for it’s next move up?

    But seriously, “because they’re fun” and “reality isn’t promising or hopeful” are probably the big ones here.

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      7 months ago

      combine that with the fact that no one trusts the government to tell them what drugs are dangerous anymore. maybe you never did, but many many people used to not do various drugs because they trusted that they were illegal for a reason. the current state of marijuana being federally illegal and clearly not hurting people that bad has made that much much harder to believe.

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      7 months ago

      Fun fact, the mountain where Moses did the Ten Commandments thing? It had a native hallucinogenic plant growing in it.

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      7 months ago

      Or maybe reality isn’t promising or hopeful due to people taking hallucinogens instead of tinkering or creating or rioting.