We had horror stories be told to us

Some guy allegedly killed his gf while he was tripping

Like, they went to sleep in a tent at a festival, he then just murdered her

And of course XTC was the culprit

Idk, I kinda don't believe the story anymore

Only XTC? maybe she was an insufferable bitch and would have been murdered anyway at some point by some guy if not him? 😉

I think the teachers that told us this just wanted to use it to get people off of drugs

Not realizing that this type of story doesn't deter anyone who's already interested, and the rest would've never tried it anyway

I wish they'd be more objective about drugs

Make it sound boring as hell with tons of facts and numbers

Hammer it into kid's heads until they get sick when they hear someone name a drug

Meh, my rule, keep it closer to nature, don't involve too much of the chemical process.

Sure

Although

When people say "it's bad cause it's chemical"

I just laugh, it's such terrible reasoning

The human body is mostly chemicals

There is a threshold, don't get me wrong

Like our entire digestive system wouldn't even work without chemicals

Our brains even

Imo just make drugs sound really lame and "uncool", that seems like a good deterrent

All systems that developed over millions of years to form a careful balance with nature.

Now if I take a drug like Meth, with- who knows how many compounds, versus, weed...

Right

I buy meth off the street, I have a general idea of what is already in it, INCLUDING any additional "surprises" the cooks might have in it, same with with, but if I buy weed off the street, I reduce those chances, just as if I cook or grow either of these drugs myself.

*weed

Eliminate for variable X as much as possible, find the baseline, reduce the control to least destructive, you form an argument to say what is or is not more harmful.

I'd say corn syrup is more addictive than weed.

But you have to control for accessibility and how pervasive it is

Oh hell yeah sugar is probably the most destructive drug in the west

Cancer rates far higher than they need to be

And many other diseases ofc

But hey

Mmmm

"Those crackheads, ruining their lives" says dad, as he poors sugar into his 6th coffee of the day

I never understood dudes that needed that much.

Maybe had a previous reliance on cocaine in the past? No idea.

Coffee is a pretty horrible drug because it's not being talked about as potentially dangerous

People drink these things like they're nothing, not giving a thought, and I mean, it's not like I don't understand them, but seriously

Lack of education smh

I don't even wanna know how many things I have in my diet that I should still cut out