Public VIew of Acid and Other Psychoactives

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I was reading this and I was appalled at how misinformed so many people are about Acid. I hear time and time again from people that Acid eats holes in your brain or makes it bleed. Some people made very legitimate posts, but its amazing how the media can swing most peoples views of a topic.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080427173517AAdnR3P

I'm just curious about what everybody thinks about how the media and government portrays Acid and other psychoactives
 
Yes people are relatively ignorant about it, but in some ways its a good thing. If it keeps some people away who are just chasing another high like weed and wouldn't know what to expect if they ate it. And it leaves the people who truly are informed and passionate about it to use it. But off course the only downside is that its illegal. But do you really think that widespread use would be a good thing? Acid isnt right for everything and i dont think its a bad thing if only the most well informed and prepared people use it. Spreading lies about its effects isnt the best way to achieve this but hey thats how it is and it works.
 
Yes people are relatively ignorant about it, but in some ways its a good thing. If it keeps some people away who are just chasing another high like weed and wouldn't know what to expect if they ate it. And it leaves the people who truly are informed and passionate about it to use it. But off course the only downside is that its illegal. But do you really think that widespread use would be a good thing? Acid isnt right for everything and i dont think its a bad thing if only the most well informed and prepared people use it. Spreading lies about its effects isnt the best way to achieve this but hey thats how it is and it works.
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I never really thought of that. I think however if the public were more properly educated on the effects and proper use of acid and other drugs would be a better solution than just illegalizing nearly all recreational drugs. Widespread use would probably still be an issue, though even now about 8% of the population has taken acid once in their life.
 
It's not just acid or psychoactive. There's misinformation and exaggerated takes on just about every illegal substance available. It seems to be a case of them being portrayed in that light somewhat due to the fact that they're illegal, and them staying illegal (to a degree) due to the fact that they are portrayed that way.
 
the cultural revolution that today still dramatically effects everyone's lives, is a result of mass psychedelic use in the 60's. imo
 
I disagree. I think the cultural revolution was wholly the work of New Left philosophy grounded in Freudian-Marxism of the '30s-'50s (the Frankfurt School).

The many movements or branches that grew out of the New Left include the mainstream recreational drug counter-culture, the GLBT rights movement, sexual freedom, etc.

A number of right-wingers, corperate moneygrubbers and others not friendly to the individual choice to use recreational drugs themselves took acid or other drugs in the '60s/'70s. In and of itself taking any drug isn't revolutionary. A person can still be a dick. Who happened to take acid.
 
I disagree. I think the cultural revolution was wholly the work of New Left philosophy grounded in Freudian-Marxism of the '30s-'50s (the Frankfurt School).
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i agree, but i think LSD is one of the vehicles for these ideas to spread. like today, the internet is a vehicle for good ideas to spread faster. in the 60s, there was so much population activism because critical ideas were able to spread more rapidly than ever before, much in thanks to the hippie culture of acceptance and rejection of "the establishment" paving the way for a better individualism where the "machine" that created the individual can be shed and left behind, allowing the individual to choose from a huge array of directions to go towards in their life

mass use of LSD also apparently was feared by the government, one of the main reasons they persecuted LSD so much was because they believed it lead to social activism and widespread political involvement. particularly liberal political involvement, which was seen as dangerous. sometimes it was... because it had to be..
 
mass use of LSD also apparently was feared by the government, one of the main reasons they persecuted LSD so much was because they believed it lead to social activism and widespread political involvement. particularly liberal political involvement, which was seen as dangerous. sometimes it was... because it had to be..
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I agree, thats what i believe was the main reason for the illegalization of LSD..
 
Hell, it's not just misinformation about illegal drugs. There's misinformation about sex, politics, etc. Anything that is controversial or somehow taboo develops lots of these things.
 
Good point. With drugs, it seems that a lot of the misinformation, at least when it comes from gov't sources, is misinformation on purpose. :\
 
Ive had some people come up and say some complete and utter bullshit about LSD, psilocybin and psychedelics in general. The classic acid leaves scars on your brain, it's very easy to OD on acid 8) , mescaline is pharmaceutical cocaine =D (i kid you not ive heard more then a few people say this) and the ol classic magic mushrooms don't really get you high they just poison you which makes you feel like your high 8) . That last one always gives me a laugh even a decade over i first heard it.

You can't tell most of these people any different really. They just won't believe you or will get really pissed off that you have the nerve to question them. I once got into a argument with a friend of a friend online over her misguided notion about how dangerous LSD and magic mushrooms where. When i presented her with loads upom loads of evidence shooting down her claims she became downright abusive and started to spit and stutter like a old ford V-8 engine on it's lasts legs.

So ya these people are good for a laugh and you can really take the piss out of them. It's especially fun while high =D .
 
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You can't tell most of these people any different really. They just won't believe you or will get really pissed off that you have the nerve to question them. I once got into a argument with a friend of a friend online over her misguided notion about how dangerous LSD and magic mushrooms where. When i presented her with loads upom loads of evidence shooting down her claims she became downright abusive and started to spit and stutter like a old ford V-8 engine on it's lasts legs.
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easier to just call them a fucking idiot and refuse to entertain any further conversation. and since when is public responses from fools on yahoo considered the media? i've seen so much retarded shit said on yahoo answers that they should just call it ... something. i can't think of anything clever to call it, but the point is it sucks at its purpose
 
I think society (not necessarily the media) is a bit more tolerant of natural pschedelics than synthetic ones. And actually it's very primitive reasoning; the natural stuff is here, rather than not here, so it could be benefitial (be it God put it there for us to use, or it's just good for us in the extreme sense of how carrots are good for us). Furthermore, I think people are somewhat open relatively about this, given that it's widely known that naturally-occuring psychs are used by indigenious cultures all over the planet for benefit. I think the synthetic stuff is less respected becasue it's viewed as possibly more dangerous and man "playing God" in a way, in his laboratory. The "manufactured" element of it seems to more hint at man desiring to get high to feel good and have fun than to experience something profound. And I don't think people, especially older people, want to respect that as much.
 
jiffilube said:
I'm just curious about what everybody thinks about how the media and government portrays Acid and other psychoactives
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I've never really seen the "media" or the "government" passing on those kind of adolescent drug rumors. Sure they have their own brand that they like but generally it's a little more toned down and gets sorted faster. For that matter I don't remember any of them ever telling me dick about acid. Most of the type of wildly inaccurate and idiotic stuff like oh it collects in your spinal column or if you trip 5 times you're legally insane gets passed down from generation to generation as one of the last true oral histories perpetuated by folks that will laugh about how stupid they were only a few years later. You'll probably hear some of the same rumors 50 years from now.
 
If you want to know the truth about something then don't listen to the government or the state run media. In a perfect world, people would be educated with true facts about drugs. Let adults decide for themselves what they will ingest. I took LSD about 120 times back in the 70s. I have no adverse health effects and no regrets.

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