It sucks. Can confirm.
No smoke, no pills, no sip, no nothing. I don’t recommend it.
Medication? In this economy?
So I kind of wonder what would happen if a country just decided to ignore all patents and copyrights one day. Like just gathered all the intel they could on making all the medications out there, spin up a factory making their generic version then just only used those moving forward for their country. Maybe even selling it to other countries as well if there is demand. Clearly companies would be pissed because it would undercut their profits but what can they really do. Sueing them only works if the country cares to pay, and I don’t see many people wanting to go to war with another country because they brought the costs of medication down.
They’d have to get other governments to try to sanction them, but if my options were to sanction a country, or buy medications at a much lower price thereby bringing down healthcare costs and increasing access to healthcare for our population… Maybe enough countries would just let it go and other countries would join in on making their own ignoring the patents as well.
Many countries do that. Countries like India have limited patent protection. It’s why medications are so cheap there.
The “free market” was always a lie in America
Literally how the generic pharma industry works. Companies specialising in generics often push against the limits of IP and/or ignore them to bring cheap generics to market, and deal with lawsuits (or not) later. See Israel, India, and Switzerland.
You basically described China
Medication is too expensive. Booze is cheap.
Weed is cheaper.
Raw dogging that shit is not what matters but looking at what you care for can help in any case.
Our governments, media and sadly often enough the people around you try to convince you that nothing can be done. Wrong. There are people everywhere around the world bringing positive change to their communities, even if it won’t do any systematic change over night or at all.
Our governments will crumble and our society will change and i am convinced that this will bring us all closer together. Don’t let hateful bots tell you otherwise.
Heathcare tied to my parents, don’t have a license to drive, scared of public transit (too many people and weirdos/criminals and also I’m afraid ICE is gonna start raiding busses and I’m not white). And my mother don’t trust medications.
I don’t have any meds or smoke or anything like that… but every now and then… every month or two I take like 6-7g of magic mushroom and goto fucking space.
Just under 1 year and 9 months sober. Its pretty tough rn
You know, being neuro-stable(?) is becoming increasingly more difficult. I’m starting to more fully understand my neuro spicy brothers and sisters. The anxiety isn’t in your head. And I’m here for you.
Anxiety in my head: “Something extreme and urgent and unjustifiable is going to happen and nobody will respond proportionally to keep you safe”
The fucking news: “Something extreme and urgent and unjustifiable has happened for the 11th time this week, and 49% of the country is cheering for it”
The trick is learning you’re not important enough for things to happen to.
I mean, lot of the anxiety is in my head.
But not all of it, and that part just keeps growing! It’s going to outpace the internal anxiety soon!
being neuro-stable(?) is becoming increasingly more difficult
being neuro-stable is to have a clear plan of how you’re gonna live your life day-to-day for the next 50 years. that was possible in the (post-WW2) 20th century where people were just expected to have jobs and go to work day-to-day. There was no uncertainty in that scheme, so being mentally stable was significantly straightforward. Today, that scheme doesn’t work anymore as the job market is falling apart and people are uncertain how they’re gonna live their lifes.
Having such a detailed plan sounds neurodivergent as fuck.
Being stable can be as simple as being relatively centered while chaos ensues.
palms some blotter paper and eats two bars of the most disgusting chocolate you can imagine
We have ways.
That show The Studio has a scene where a star eats some mushroom chocolate mistaking it for normal chocolate and I’m just wondering if Hollywood has better chocolates.
Is the secret money and attractiveness?
You can get pretty good, abd the best ive had was actually in LA. Rather; a train headed to (long story).
But the best mushroom chocolate I’ve had was ‘almost tastes like shitty chocolate’. Like i didnt gag while eating it. It was still obviously what it was.
Does it count if I just smoke weed?
Hell yeah.
I’m on several prescriptions and two of them are from my psychiatrist. So for me it’s not just the weed. And my response to it can be pretty strain-specific.
But god damn does it help a lot.
Not going to lie, it’s pretty rough, I’m currently between jobs too… a double whammy of unpleasant awareness.
I self-medicate with caffeine and sugar. 👌
(It’s losing its effectiveness as i grow tolerant. Send halp)
This. I don’t think anyone is actually rawdogging life.
Does estrogen count or am I rawdogging it?
Only if your trans
Halp is on the way! He’s bringing Celsius
Secret ingredient is increasing caffeine from time to time.
I had to stop when my heart almost exploded.
now I’m on antianxiety meds until I decide it’s not worth it to be alive anymore.
Again, can’t go to therapist. Don’t have time/money.
Arguably won’t be that helpful anyway
I’ve never drink alcohol or taken any drugs in my life.
Later years have me seriously looking how to buy weed and considering taking it because they say it’s good for anxiety. Sadly is not legal here and I’m too asocial to even know people who smoke it.
don’t do drugs alone.
drugs can be fine🤷 - but alone it can just make shit way worse; especially modern weed’s got way too much thc (which increases anxiety) and too little cdb (which decreases anxiety)
Grow your own and it won’t be as strong. 🇳🇱
Homegrown and amateurly cured weed will have more CBD in ratio to the THC which take the edge off, much better than expertly grown stuff imho
Good advice, thanks! I’m still in a “studying pros and cons phase”.
If you decide to go ahead with it then remember the two most important things for a good experience: (mind)set and setting.
It’s important to be in the right headspace and in a place you feel comfortable with. When you’re more experienced this can be applied more loosely but for early experiments it’s very important.
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yeah that seems like a good rule for recreational use. mine is more “treat it like a damn prescription, keep track of how much and how often you’re using because you’re a nerd and kind of like doing that stuff but also to see if there are significant changes, and try to minimize use” because if i don’t wake and bake, one or two of my organs misfire. also i like spreadsheets and datasets it works great for me.
I’m going to disagree and say definitely try weed alone if you think it’ll help. It probably will. You can dip your toes in slowly. I started smoking and it REALLY, REALLY helped keep me going to the gym regularly, because it made the music, etc…so much better that it just kept things interesting. Among other benefits (helps with pain, anxiety, etc…).
Does pot and alcohol count?
Self prescription
No. But for some, yes.
Self medication is the best kind
