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What’s worse for you: Taking mushrooms or drinking alcohol?
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how much alcohol? 3 or fewer drinks doesn't do much. in general, alcohol by a lot, though. most overviews of mushrooms show negligible harm or positive effect; the net effect of alcohol is calculably devastating
The worst you'll get with shrooms, physically speaking, is vomiting if you do it on an empty stomach/don't chew 'em up enough. (Why I recommend infused shroom tea).
Alcohol? Well...technically that should be illegal due to all the deaths it causes but...tax money! Yay!
I'm going off of physical issues, here btw. I know shrooms don't jive well with some people with mental illness but you won't ever die ingesting shrooms.
Nah, guy. You're talking out of your ass.
Alcohol? Well...technically that should be illegal due to all the deaths it causes but...tax money! Yay!
I'm going off of physical issues, here btw. I know shrooms don't jive well with some people with mental illness but you won't ever die ingesting shrooms.
Nah, guy. You're talking out of your ass.
As a drinker I would say mushrooms are way better, I had some pretty good trips back when I was younger.
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Probably alcohol but is much rather hang out with someone who has a few drinks every day than someone who is always on shrooms
Honestly, I can't blame him. A lot of people think psychs and the like put holes in your brain literally. Thanks, D.A.R.E. program and misinformation!
He's gonna get dog-piled tho :/
You single-handedly ruined OP's friendship with his buddy lmao
Yup, alcohol is one of the worst drugs. Always cracks me up when people talk about marijuana being a gateway drug when it's closer to a latte than booze in harm.
Health wise alcohol easily (assuming you mean binge drinking).
Shrooms can fuck you hard mentally though, it's a "harder" drug in that sense. Anyone can drink alcohol whenever. With shrooms you absolutely have to be in the right mindset and know what you're getting into (and have a sober babysitter just in case).
Shrooms can fuck you hard mentally though, it's a "harder" drug in that sense. Anyone can drink alcohol whenever. With shrooms you absolutely have to be in the right mindset and know what you're getting into (and have a sober babysitter just in case).
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It's really amazing how brainwashed most of society is from D.A.R.E and the like. They truly have no idea that the most socially accepted, everyday "drug" people do everywhere is way more dangerous than the drugs that have been demonized nonstop.
D.A.R.E. worked on me too. I eventually admitted my alcoholism.
Edit: with my own alcoholism as well as getting older, just watch which drug is ruining most of your family and friends lives. Particularly the drug that brings down a family (including the nonusers). Alcoholism in a family is the worst. Violence and abuse, anger, denial... I didn't even realize I lived through it until I got sober. So many dark family secrets too, often involving alcohol.
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If you're predisposed to schizophrenia or psychosis psychs can make it onset faster or initiate a psychotic break, and if you're in a bad place mentally they're certainly not entirely safe, but as far as actual effects on the body/brain and danger to those around you? Alcohol is way more dangerous. Pair that with the fact that psychs have legitimate medical uses (even outside of current research they used to be prescribed for a variety of mental problems) and alcohol easily loses. Pretty sure psychs are less addictive than caffeine too, but don't quote me on that.
I remember the '80s propaganda about "LSD flashbacks". The implication that if you ever took it in the past it's still in your system and can hit you out of the blue. (Spooked me as a kid.)
Off topic, but isn't this sort of true with meth? Like it's stored in fat cells or something and you can get high even after clean time? That stuff is scary.
Though I think that's part of the detox as opposed to the propaganda you're speaking of.
Yeah, that is extremely rare to occur. They used to say it was stored up in the spine lol However, some people do get something similar. Think of it like deja vu but a flashback from when you were tripping, that mindset. Usually would happen if I would smoke weed. But that hasn't happened for years now. Very short-lived effect and seems to go away (comes and goes rarely) within a few months.
Sorry, kinda hard to explain.
What a stupid chart. Weed over Benzos? LOL.
Psilocybin is one of the safest drugs. You can have a bad trip and still come out feeling happier than you were before that trip. It has the potential to heal millions of people with depression and other mental health issues.
Alcohol is a addictive very powerful intoxicant that kills tens of thousands yearly.
Alcohol is a addictive very powerful intoxicant that kills tens of thousands yearly.
Came to mention this but beaten. Alcohol by FAR.
It's ranking more than just user harm. I'm assuming the discrepancy between weed and benzos is because weed is far more popular and therefore has a more pronounced negative socioeconomic impact.
I can't speak for that but "perma trails" from excessive LSD use are absolutely a real thing
I remember that "stored up in your spine" thing. Then one year I got shingles, and found out that it was chicken pox stored in your spine. 💁♂️
I have done both,
And more detail is needed OP.
It is not a simple cookie cutter answer, because people are different and amount of drugs has different effects.
Based on my own experience, I would rather get fucked up on booze then fucked up on mushrooms.
And more detail is needed OP.
It is not a simple cookie cutter answer, because people are different and amount of drugs has different effects.
Based on my own experience, I would rather get fucked up on booze then fucked up on mushrooms.
Only a fair comparison would be if all drugs on that list had the same availability and legal status as alcohol. Alcohol is going to have higher numbers because it has a vastly higher number of users.
It's not just "volume." Alcohol withdrawal is an incredibly dangerous thing and if not managed properly alcohol withdrawal will ABSOLUTELY kill you.
likewise excessive alcohol will wreck your organs and send you into liver failure. That is NOT the case for Mushrooms, LSD, Ecstasy, Marijuana, Tobacco, etc.
