One day, I dropped acid. It showed me the infinite, interconnected triangularity of everything. That's why this story has three sentences.
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I love drugs. They've taught me so much.
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- Story in only Three Sentences by Stryke.
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Break on through to the other side.
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Great job. short and to the point though i don't promote using drugs, it was a great read.
thanks for entering.
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I promote using drugs. I do not, however, promote *abusing* drugs; this includes, but is not limited to, using drugs without advance research and deliberately engaging in self-destructive practices.
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You don't have to abuse them for them to kill you. But you have a warped point. Ancient tribes(and some still around out there in the amazon or wherever) believed in their use about the way you do. Only they'd mix lime and some form of crushed cocoa- and viola, cocaine.
Thought it connected them to spirits and heped them gain wisdom... but I would call that a bad tripp.
But thanks for sharing on triangularity and good luck in your contest. -
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Actually, the whole point is that yes, yes, you do have to abuse them for them to kill you. If you use them responsibly and intelligently, the risk of fatality is negligible. By definition, if you're doing something that's likely to kill you, it's not responsible drug use.
Also, it wasn't cocoa, it's coca. Cocoa comes from the cacao plant; cocaine comes from the coca plant. The names are very similar, I know, but they are in fact two different plants.
No offense meant, but how could you know if it's a bad trip or not if you've never done it? Not that I'm saying drugs are harmless, or anything, but we routinely engage in *managed* risk, and most of the time, things work out, because people aren't allowed to engage in those risks until they've proven they know what the hell they're doing. If that were true of drugs, people would hurt themselves a lot less often. -
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On the plant thing- my bad.
And I have done drugs and I have been in the hospital thanks to them- and yes because I abused them.
But NO abusing them isn't the only way that they can kill you and if you ever worked at hospital you'd find out pretty quick. It's the same way with RX drugs, even when they are taken in correct dosage, do they not sometimes cause fatal effects? -
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Oh, and if you don't mind... I'm always curious about other people's drug stories, good and bad. If you don't want to talk about it, I understand totally.
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Well, yes. And there are certainly any number of things a person could do without knowing it would make a normally safe drug suddenly fatal without it necessarily being "abuse" or inexcusable ignorance, just a case of poor patient education.
But usually when I talk about this stuff I try to stick to the most likely circumstances because it's what most people focus on, and it complicates the argument unnecessarily for most people if I stop to account for every variable I can think of.
So, since you've brought it up -- yes, of course, that can and does happen. It's not at all a common phenomenon, though, even before I bar things like undiscovered severe allergies, genetic glitches, and the like.
But that's exactly why I like to advocate for better drug education in general. People wouldn't prescribe, or take, methadone as casually as they do now, for example, if they knew it were so easy to overdose accidentally on as compared to other, much safer opioids. Barbiturates have already almost disappeared precisely because they were so dangerous in that sense, and I can only hope the other drugs remaining in medical and other uses which have that quality disappear quickly, too. There's always better, safer alternatives, which would be used if people only knew that a.) they existed and b.) that there's a reason to substitute in the first place.
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